Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 24
Men, women, and children, from all corners of the island, came in droves for coronets; and, setting the gentleman to work to gather boughs and poles, made a fine hut to lodge the basket-maker; and brought down daily from the country such provisions as they lived upon themselves, taking care to offer the imagined servant nothing till his master had done eating.
Who acts: Men, setting, master · What happens: come, set, work, gather, make, lodge · To what, where: droves, gentleman, boughs, fine hut, basket maker, country
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 (Men, setting, master), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Men | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 children | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 children | cc |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Men | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 corners | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 corners | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 corners | det |
| 10 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Men | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corners | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Men | punct |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 droves | case |
| 17 | droves | drove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 coronets | case |
| 19 | coronets | coronet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 droves | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 setting | punct |
| 23 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 made | csubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gentleman | det |
| 25 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 setting | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 work | mark |
| 27 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 gentleman | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 gather | mark |
| 29 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 work | advcl |
| 30 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gather | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 poles | cc |
| 32 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 boughs | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 setting | punct |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hut | det |
| 36 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hut | amod |
| 37 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 lodge | mark |
| 39 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 made | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 maker | det |
| 41 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 maker | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 basket | punct |
| 43 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lodge | obj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 brought | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 brought | cc |
| 46 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 47 | down | down | ADV | _ | 46 brought | advmod |
| 48 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 46 brought | advmod |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 country | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 country | det |
| 51 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 brought | obl |
| 52 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 provisions | amod |
| 53 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 country | appos |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 56 lived | mark |
| 55 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 lived | nsubj |
| 56 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 brought | advcl |
| 57 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 58 themselves | case |
| 58 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 56 lived | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 taking | punct |
| 60 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 lived | advcl |
| 61 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 taking | obj |
| 62 | to | to | PART | _ | 63 offer | mark |
| 63 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 taking | advcl |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 nothing | det |
| 65 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 67 nothing | amod |
| 66 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 nothing | compound |
| 67 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 63 offer | obj |
| 68 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 72 done | mark |
| 69 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 70 master | nmod:poss |
| 70 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 done | nsubj |
| 71 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 72 done | aux |
| 72 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 63 offer | advcl |
| 73 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 72 done | xcomp |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Men and women and children and all corners of the island | droves for coronets | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drove=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | gerund | the gentleman | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient gentleman=Result | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the gentleman not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | gather | to-infinitive | boughs and poles | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | past | setting | a fine hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product | ||||
| 6 | lodge | to-infinitive | setting not said here | the basket maker | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maker=Location | ||||
| 7 | bring down | past | Men and women and children and all corners of the island not said here | the country | daily, down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from country=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | live | past | men = man | upon savages = savage | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon themselves=Location | ||||
| 9 | take | gerund | men = man not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 10 | offer | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | nothing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 11 | imagine | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 12 | do | past · perfect | maker's master | tree rules | |||||
| 13 | eat | gerund | maker's master not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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