Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 15

The place in which they were landed was a marsh; under cover of those flags the gentleman was in hopes of concealing himself, and giving the slip to his companion, whom he thought it a disgrace to be found with: but the lights in the galley having giving an alarm to the savages, a considerable body of them came down, and discovered in the morning the two strangers in their hiding-place.

Who acts: place, gentleman, hopes, galley, lights · What happens: land, be, conceal, give, think, find · To what, where: gallies, place, marsh, hopes, gentleman, slip

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 (place, gentleman, hopes, galley), 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 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marsh	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 landed	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 landed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 landed	aux:pass
7	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 place	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 marsh	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cover	punct
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 cover	case
13	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marsh	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 flags	case
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 flags	det
16	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cover	nmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gentleman	det
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopes	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hopes	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 hopes	case
21	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flags	nmod
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 concealing	mark
23	concealing	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hopes	acl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 concealing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 giving	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 giving	cc
27	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 concealing	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 slip	det
29	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 companion	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 companion	nmod:poss
32	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whom	punct
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 thought	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hopes	parataxis
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 disgrace	det
39	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thought	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 found	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 found	aux:pass
42	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 disgrace	acl
43	with	with	ADP	_	42 found	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 lights	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 lights	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 lights	det
47	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 came	nsubj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 galley	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 galley	det
50	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lights	nmod
51	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 galley	acl
52	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 having	xcomp
53	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 alarm	det
54	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 giving	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 savages	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 savages	det
57	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 giving	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 body	punct
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 body	det
60	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 body	amod
61	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lights	conj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 body	nmod
64	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 marsh	acl:relcl
65	down	down	ADV	_	64 came	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 discovered	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 discovered	cc
68	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 marsh	parataxis
69	in	in	ADP	_	71 morning	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 morning	det
71	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 discovered	obl
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 strangers	det
73	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	74 strangers	nummod
74	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 discovered	obj
75	in	in	ADP	_	79 place	case
76	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 place	nmod:poss
77	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 place	compound
78	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 hiding	punct
79	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 strangers	nmod
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 marsh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past · passive		gallies = gally		the place			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
2	is a	past	the place	a marsh and cover of that flags				cover of that flags conj	tree rules
3	is	past	the gentleman			hopes			tree rules
4	conceal	gerund	hopes not said here	gentleman					vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	give	gerund	hopes not said here	the slip	gentleman's companion				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent slip=Theme to companion=Recipient
6	think speech: other	past	gentleman	hopes				slip obj; a disgrace obj	tree rules
7	find	to-infinitive · passive	gentleman not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
8	have	gerund	the galley not said here						tree rules
9	give	gerund	the galley not said here	a alarm	the savages				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme to savage=Recipient
10	come down	past	the lights in the galley and a considerable body of gallies	a marsh and cover of that flags not said here				down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location marsh=Theme
11	discover	participle		the two strangers		gallies's hiding place	morning		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 15

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 15