Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 23
They left the gentleman therefore to his duty in the basket-maker’s service; and considered him, from that time forward, as one who was, and ought to be treated as inferior to their benefactor.
Who acts: savages, basket maker · What happens: leave, consider, be, treat, service · To what, where: gentleman, service, maker
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 (savages, basket maker), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gentleman | det |
| 4 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 left | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 duty | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 duty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maker | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maker | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 basket | punct |
| 13 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 service | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 maker | case |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 considered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 considered | cc |
| 18 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 considered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 considered | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 time | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 considered | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 one | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 who | cop |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 treated | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 treated | cc |
| 32 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 treated | aux |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 treated | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 treated | aux:pass |
| 35 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 considered | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 inferior | case |
| 37 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 treated | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 benefactor | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 40 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 inferior | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | savages = savage | the gentleman | the basket maker's service | to gentleman's duty; therefore property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme in service=Location | ||
| 2 | consider | past | maker | time | one conj | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | treat | ought · passive | as inferior to savages's benefactor | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as inferior=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | service | the basket maker | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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