Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 16
The streets and the crowds of Mecca disappeared; I found myself sitting on the declivity of a mountain, and perceived at my right hand an angel, whom I knew to be Azoran, the minister of reproof.
Who acts: streets, I, myself · What happens: disappear, find, sit, perceive, know, be · To what, where: myself, declivity, angel, right hand, Azoran
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets, I, myself), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 streets | det |
| 2 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crowds | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crowds | det |
| 5 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 streets | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Mecca | case |
| 7 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crowds | nmod |
| 8 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disappeared | advcl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 declivity | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 declivity | det |
| 16 | declivity | declivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 declivity | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 perceived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 perceived | cc |
| 22 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hand | amod |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perceived | obl |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 angel | det |
| 28 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perceived | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 30 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 knew | obj |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 angel | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 Azoran | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Azoran | cop |
| 35 | Azoran | Azoran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 knew | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 minister | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 minister | det |
| 38 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Azoran | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 reproof | case |
| 40 | reproof | reproof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 minister | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | the streets and the crowds of Mecca | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | I | myself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | myself not said here | the declivity of a mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on declivity=Location | ||||
| 4 | perceive | past | I not said here | a angel | my right hand | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | know | past | I | a angel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | Azoran | the minister of reproof appos | tree rules |
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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