Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 22
This proposition luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure, that they might crowd round, and mark the progress of a work they took such pleasure in.
Who acts: proposition, savages, work · What happens: fall in, express, keep, crowd, mark, take · To what, where: savages, leisure, progress, such pleasure
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 (proposition, savages, work), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 proposition | det |
| 2 | proposition | proposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 desire | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 desire | det |
| 8 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 expressed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 savages | det |
| 10 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 expressed | nsubj |
| 11 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expressed | xcomp |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 leisure | case |
| 16 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crowd | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 crowd | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 crowd | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 crowd | aux |
| 21 | crowd | crowd | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 keep | conj |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 crowd | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mark | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mark | cc |
| 25 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crowd | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 progress | det |
| 27 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mark | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 work | det |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 progress | nmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 took | nsubj |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 work | acl:relcl |
| 33 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pleasure | amod |
| 34 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 pleasure | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in | past | this proposition | luckily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | express | past | the savages | with a desire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the savages not said here | savages = savage | leisure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at leisure=Location | |||
| 4 | crowd | might | savages = savage | round property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mark | infinitive | savages = savage not said here | the progress of a work | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent progress=Destination | ||||
| 6 | take | past | savages = savage | such pleasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 7 | progress | a work | nom progress «act 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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