Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 21
Through the middle there was a green walk; at the end a wild desart; and beyond, impenetrable darkness.
What happens: be · To what, where: green walk, middle
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: 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walk | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walk | amod |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 desart | det |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 desart | amod |
| 15 | desart | desart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 darkness | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 darkness | cc |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 21 darkness | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 darkness | punct |
| 20 | impenetrable | impenetrable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 darkness | amod |
| 21 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a green walk and impenetrable darkness | the middle | at the end | impenetrable darkness conj | 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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