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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 2

The Dervise, after a short silence, advanced, and saluting him with the calm dignity which independence confers upon humility, requested that he would reveal his purpose.

Who acts: calm dignity, dervise · What happens: salute, confer, request, reveal, purpose · To what, where: dervise, purpose

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 (calm dignity, dervise), 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

detnsubjpunctcasedetamodnmodpunctpunctccadvclobjcasedetamodoblnsubjnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctconjmarknsubjauxccompnmod:possobjpunctrootTheDETDervisePROPN,PUNCTafterADPaDETshortADJsilenceNOUN,PUNCTadvancedADJ,PUNCTandCCONJsalutingVERBhimPRONwithADPtheDETcalmADJdignityNOUNwhichPRONindependenceNOUNconfersVERBuponADPhumilityNOUN,PUNCTrequestedVERBthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXrevealVERBhisPRONpurposeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Dervisedet
2DerviseDervisePROPNNumber=Sing9 advancednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Dervisepunct
4afterafterADP_7 silencecase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 silencedet
6shortshortADJDegree=Pos7 silenceamod
7silencesilenceNOUNNumber=Sing2 Dervisenmod
8,,PUNCT_9 advancedpunct
9advancedadvancedADJDegree=Posrootroot
10,,PUNCT_12 salutingpunct
11andandCCONJ_12 salutingcc
12salutingsaluteVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 advancedadvcl
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 salutingobj
14withwithADP_17 dignitycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 dignitydet
16calmcalmADJDegree=Pos17 dignityamod
17dignitydignityNOUNNumber=Sing12 salutingobl
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel20 confersnsubj
19independenceindependenceNOUNNumber=Sing20 confersnsubj
20confersconferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 dignityacl:relcl
21uponuponADP_22 humilitycase
22humilityhumilityNOUNNumber=Sing20 confersobl
23,,PUNCT_24 requestedpunct
24requestedrequestVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 advancedconj
25thatthatSCONJ_28 revealmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 revealnsubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 revealaux
28revealrevealVERBVerbForm=Inf24 requestedccomp
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 purposenmod:poss
30purposepurposeNOUNNumber=Sing28 revealobj
31..PUNCT_9 advancedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1salutegerunddervisewith the calm dignityvn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2conferpresentthe calm dignityupon humility; independence nsubjvn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3requestpastvn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4revealwoulddervisedervise's purposevn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
6purposedervisenom purpose «cognition 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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