Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 30
He promised, and performed his promise: for the king, soon after, sent the captain who had landed them with presents to the savages, and ordered him to bring both back again.
Who acts: preference, captain · What happens: promise, perform, send, land, order, bring back · To what, where: promise, captain, gods, preference, both
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 (preference, captain), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 performed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 performed | cc |
| 5 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 performed | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sent | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 after | punct |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 captain | det |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 landed | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 landed | aux |
| 21 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 captain | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 landed | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 presents | case |
| 24 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 landed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 savages | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 savages | det |
| 27 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 landed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ordered | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ordered | cc |
| 30 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ordered | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bring | mark |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ordered | xcomp |
| 34 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 bring | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 bring | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | preference | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | perform | past | preference not said here | preference's promise | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | preference not said here | the captain | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme | |||
| 4 | land | past · perfect | the captain | gods = god | with presents; to the savages | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | order | past | preference | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | both | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent both=Theme | ||||
| 7 | promise | preference | nom promise «communication 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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