Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 3
An ancestor of the prince, who now reigns absolute in this central island, has, through a long descent of ages, entailed the name of Solomon’s Islands on the whole, by the effect of that wisdom wherewith he polished the manners of his people.
Who acts: ancestor, ages · What happens: reign, have, entail, polish, descend, name · To what, where: central island, long descent, name, whole, manners, Islands
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 (ancestor, ages), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ancestor | det |
| 2 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entailed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ancestor | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reigns | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 reigns | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 reigns | advmod |
| 9 | reigns | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ancestor | parataxis |
| 10 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reigns | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 island | det |
| 13 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 island | amod |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reigns | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reigns | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 descent | punct |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 descent | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 descent | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 descent | amod |
| 21 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ages | case |
| 23 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 descent | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ancestor | punct |
| 25 | entailed | entail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entailed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Islands | case |
| 29 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Islands | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Solomon | case |
| 31 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 name | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 whole | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 whole | det |
| 34 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 entailed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 effect | punct |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 effect | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 effect | det |
| 38 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entailed | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wisdom | case |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 wisdom | det |
| 41 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 effect | nmod |
| 42 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 polished | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 polished | nsubj |
| 44 | polished | polish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 effect | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 manners | det |
| 46 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 44 polished | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 people | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 people | nmod:poss |
| 49 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 manners | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 entailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | present | a ancestor of the prince | this central island | now | absolute property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have | present | a ancestor of the prince not said here | a long descent of ages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | entail | past | a ancestor of the prince | the name of Solomon's Islands | the whole | the effect of that wisdom parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 4 | polish | past | ancestor | the manners of ancestor's people | wherewith property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent manners=Destination | |||
| 5 | descend | ages | nom descent «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name | Solomon's Islands | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | effect | that wisdom | nom effect «phenomenon 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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