Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 12
He could not bear to delay the honours to which he was destined, and therefore hastened away, and in a short time entered the capital of Persia.
Who acts: merit · What happens: not bear, delay, destine, hasten away, enter · To what, where: honours, merit, capital
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 (merit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 delay | mark |
| 6 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bear | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 honours | det |
| 8 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 delay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 destined | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 destined | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 destined | aux:pass |
| 13 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 delay | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hastened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hastened | cc |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 17 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 destined | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entered | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obl |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hastened | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 capital | det |
| 27 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Persia | case |
| 29 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 capital | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | merit | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | delay | to-infinitive | merit not said here | the honours | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent honour=Source | ||||
| 3 | destine | past · passive | merit | which obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hasten away | participle | away, therefore property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | the capital of Persia | time | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Destination |
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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