Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 2
The favour of three successive califs had filled his house with gold and silver; and whenever he appeared, the benedictions of the people proclaimed his passage.
Who acts: Omar, benedictions · What happens: fill, appear, proclaim, favour, pass · To what, where: favour, passage, three successive califs
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar, benedictions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 favour | det |
| 2 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 califs | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 califs | nummod |
| 5 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 califs | amod |
| 6 | califs | calif | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 favour | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | aux |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | cc |
| 17 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 appeared | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 benedictions | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 benedictions | det |
| 22 | benedictions | benediction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 benedictions | nmod |
| 26 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 appeared | parataxis |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 passage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 proclaimed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · perfect · passive | the favour of three successive califs | Omar's house obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | Omar | whenever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proclaim | past | the benedictions of the people | Omar's passage | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | favour | three successive califs | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | pass | Omar | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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