Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 14
Yanhuma,” added he, turning to a captain of his gallies, “strip the injured and the injurer; and, conveying them to one of the most barbarous and remote of the islands, set them ashore in the night, and leave them both to their fortune.”
Who acts: Yanhuma · What happens: add, turn, strip, injure, convey, set · To what, where: king, captain, gallies, one, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yanhuma), 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 | Yanhuma | Yanhuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 added | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yanhuma | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yanhuma | punct |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turning | punct |
| 7 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 added | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 captain | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turning | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gallies | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gallies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gallies | gally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 captain | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strip | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 strip | punct |
| 16 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turning | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 injured | det |
| 18 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 strip | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 injurer | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 injurer | det |
| 21 | injurer | injurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 injured | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 set | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 conveying | punct |
| 25 | conveying | convey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 set | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 conveying | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 conveying | obl |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 barbarous | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 barbarous | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 barbarous | advmod |
| 32 | barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 remote | cc |
| 34 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 barbarous | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 islands | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 islands | det |
| 37 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 remote | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 conveying | punct |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | parataxis |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | obj |
| 41 | ashore | ashore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 set | xcomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 night | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 night | det |
| 44 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ashore | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 leave | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 leave | cc |
| 47 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 set | conj |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 leave | obj |
| 49 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 them | appos |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 fortune | case |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 52 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 leave | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 set | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Yanhuma | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | Yanhuma not said here | a captain of king's gallies | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to captain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | strip | infinitive | Yanhuma not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | injure | participle | Yanhuma not said here | the injurer conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | convey | gerund | gallies = gally | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to one=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | gallies = gally | ashore property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | ||||
| 7 | leave | infinitive | gallies = gally | gallies's fortune | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to fortune=Recipient |
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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