Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 25
Three months reflection, in this mortified condition, gave a new and just turn to our gentleman’s improved ideas; insomuch that, lying weeping and awake one night, he thus confessed his sentiments in favour of the basket-maker.
Who acts: months reflection, insomuch, gentleman · What happens: mortify, give, turn, improve, lie, confess · To what, where: new, weeping, sentiments, favour, basket 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 (months reflection, insomuch, gentleman), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reflection | compound |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 condition | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 condition | det |
| 7 | mortified | mortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 condition | amod |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflection | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflection | punct |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 new | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turn | cc |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 turn | advmod |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 new | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gentleman | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gentleman | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ’s | obl |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | ccomp |
| 20 | improved | improve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ideas | amod |
| 21 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ’s | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 insomuch | punct |
| 23 | insomuch | insomuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lying | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lying | punct |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 insomuch | acl:relcl |
| 27 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lying | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 night | cc |
| 29 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 night | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 night | nummod |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 weeping | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 confessed | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 confessed | nsubj |
| 34 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 35 confessed | advmod |
| 35 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sentiments | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sentiments | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 confessed | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 favour | case |
| 39 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 confessed | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 maker | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 maker | det |
| 42 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 maker | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 basket | punct |
| 44 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 favour | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mortify | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | months reflection and this mortified condition | a new | insomuch obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent new=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | months reflection and this mortified condition not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | improve | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | insomuch | weeping and awake one night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weeping=Theme | ||||
| 6 | confess | past | gentleman | gentleman's sentiments | favour of the basket maker | thus property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentiment=Topic | ||
| 7 | favour | the basket maker | nom favour «feeling 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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