Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 8
His chamber was filled by visitants, eager to catch the dictates of experience, and officious to pay the tribute of admiration.
Who acts: visitants, experience · What happens: fill, catch, pay, dictate · To what, where: chamber, dictates, tribute
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 (visitants, experience), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 visitants | case |
| 6 | visitants | visitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eager | punct |
| 8 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 visitants | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eager | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dictates | det |
| 12 | dictates | dictate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 catch | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 experience | case |
| 14 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dictates | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 officious | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 officious | cc |
| 17 | officious | officious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eager | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pay | mark |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 officious | csubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tribute | det |
| 21 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 admiration | case |
| 23 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tribute | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | visitants | vigour's chamber | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | visitants not said here | the dictates of experience | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dictate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the tribute of admiration | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset | |||||
| 4 | dictate | experience | nom dictate «communication intransitive»: of=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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