Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 9

“As I was sitting one evening at the porch of the temple, pensive and alone, mine eye wandered among the multitude that was scattered before me; and while I remarked the weariness and solicitude which was visible in every countenance, I was suddenly struck with a sense of their condition.

Who acts: Almet, weariness · What happens: sit, wander, scatter, remark, be, strike · To what, where: porch, multitude, weariness, countenance, Almet, condition

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 (Almet, weariness), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 sitting	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wandered	advcl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 evening	nummod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 porch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 porch	det
10	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 temple	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 temple	det
13	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 porch	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pensive	punct
15	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitting	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 alone	cc
17	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pensive	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wandered	nsubj
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	nsubj
21	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 multitude	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 multitude	det
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 scattered	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 scattered	aux:pass
27	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 multitude	acl:relcl
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 scattered	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 remarked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 remarked	cc
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 remarked	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 remarked	nsubj
34	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wandered	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 weariness	det
36	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remarked	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 solicitude	cc
38	solicitude	solicitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 weariness	conj
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 visible	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 visible	cop
41	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 weariness	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 countenance	case
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 countenance	det
44	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 visible	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 struck	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 struck	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 struck	aux:pass
48	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	49 struck	advmod
49	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 remarked	conj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 sense	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 sense	det
52	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 struck	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 condition	case
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 condition	nmod:poss
55	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sense	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past · progressive	Almet		the porch of the temple	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at porch=Location
2	wander in a quote	past	Almet		the multitude		eye nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among multitude=Trajectory
3	scatter in a quote	past · passive		the multitude		before Almet		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before i=Destination
4	remark speech: assert in a quote	past	Almet	the weariness and solicitude				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weariness=Topic
5	is in a quote	past	the weariness and solicitude		every countenance		visible property	tree rules
6	strike in a quote	past · passive		Almet			with a sense of weariness's condition; suddenly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sense=Instrument
7	sense in a quote			weariness's condition				nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	condition in a quote		weariness					nom condition «state 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 9

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 9