Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 16

Setting up a dismal yell, they surrounded them; and advancing nearer and nearer with a kind of clubs, seemed determined to dispatch them, without sense of hospitality or mercy.

What happens: set up, surround, advance, seem, dispatch, sense · To what, where: dismal yell, gallies, hospitality

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: 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	Setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 seemed	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Setting	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 yell	det
4	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yell	amod
5	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Setting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 surrounded	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 surrounded	nsubj:pass
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Setting	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 surrounded	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 advancing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 advancing	cc
12	advancing	advance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Setting	conj
13	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 advancing	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nearer	cc
15	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 nearer	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 kind	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 kind	det
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 advancing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 clubs	case
20	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kind	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Setting	punct
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 seemed	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dispatch	mark
25	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 determined	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dispatch	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sense	punct
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 sense	case
29	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dispatch	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 hospitality	case
31	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sense	nmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 mercy	cc
33	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hospitality	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set up	gerund	a dismal yell		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient yell=Result
2	surround	participle · passive	gallies = gally	strangers = stranger obj	tree rules
3	advance	gerund		with a kind of clubs; near property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	seem	past		determined property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	dispatch	to-infinitive	gallies = gally	without sense of hospitality or mercy	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	sense		hospitality or mercy		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 16