Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 18
I cast mine eye upon the ground, and was about to deprecate his anger, when he commanded me to be silent.
Who acts: I, eye · What happens: cast, be, deprecate, command, anger · To what, where: mine, anger, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, eye), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cast | obj |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cast | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 about | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cast | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 deprecate | mark |
| 13 | deprecate | deprecate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 about | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 anger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deprecate | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commanded | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 commanded | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 commanded | nsubj |
| 19 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 anger | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 commanded | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 silent | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 silent | cop |
| 23 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 commanded | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | present | I | mine | upon the ground; eye obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent my=Beneficiary eye=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | I not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deprecate | to-infinitive | I not said here | eye's anger | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | past | eye | me | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | eye not said here | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | anger | eye | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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