Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 14
The sun was gone down, the multitude was retired to rest, and the solemn quiet of midnight concurred with the resolution of my doubts to complete the tranquillity of my mind.
Who acts: my · What happens: go down, retire, rest, concur, complete, resolve · To what, where: sun, multitude, solemn quiet, tranquillity, doubts
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 gone | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 retired | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 multitude | det |
| 8 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retired | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 retired | aux:pass |
| 10 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rest | mark |
| 12 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 retired | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 concurred | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 concurred | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quiet | det |
| 16 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 quiet | amod |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 concurred | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 midnight | case |
| 19 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quiet | nmod |
| 20 | concurred | concur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 resolution | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 resolution | det |
| 23 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 concurred | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 doubts | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 doubts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 resolution | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 complete | mark |
| 28 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 concurred | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tranquillity | det |
| 30 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 complete | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mind | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mind | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tranquillity | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · passive | the sun | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent | |||||
| 2 | retire | past · passive | the multitude | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | concur | participle · passive | the solemn quiet of midnight | with the resolution of my doubts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | complete | to-infinitive | the tranquillity of my mind | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tranquillity=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | resolve | my doubts | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | doubt | my | nom doubt «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition 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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