Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 9
Caled, the son of the viceroy of Egypt, entered every day early, and retired late.
Who acts: Caled · What happens: enter, retire
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 (Caled), 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 | Caled | Caled | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Caled | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 viceroy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 viceroy | det |
| 7 | viceroy | viceroy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Egypt | case |
| 9 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 viceroy | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Caled | punct |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 entered | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 retired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 retired | cc |
| 17 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 entered | conj |
| 18 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 retired | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Caled | day | early property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | retire | participle | Caled not said here | late property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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