Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 11
Having thus settled his determination, he declared to his friends his design of visiting Tauris, and saw with more pleasure than he ventured to express, the regret with which he was dismissed.
Who acts: Having, merit, design · What happens: have, settle, declare, visit, see, venture · To what, where: determination, friends, Tauris, regret, merit
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Having, merit, design), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 settled | csubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Having | advmod |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 determination | nmod:poss |
| 5 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 declared | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 declared | nsubj |
| 8 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 declared | obl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 design | nmod:poss |
| 13 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | conj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 visiting | mark |
| 15 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 design | acl |
| 16 | Tauris | Tauris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 visiting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pleasure | case |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 ventured | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ventured | nsubj |
| 25 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 express | mark |
| 27 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ventured | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 regret | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 regret | det |
| 30 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 express | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 dismissed | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dismissed | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 35 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 regret | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | settle | past | Having | merit's determination | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme determination=Location | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | merit | merit's friends and merit's design | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | visit | gerund | merit's design not said here | Tauris | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tauris=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Having not said here | with more pleasure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | venture | past | merit | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | express | to-infinitive | merit not said here | the regret | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regret=Theme | ||||
| 8 | dismiss | past · passive | merit | with the regret | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 9 | determine | merit | nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | design | merit | nom design «act 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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