Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 15
His father had, in his absence, suffered many losses, and Gelaleddin was considered as an additional burthen to a fallen family.
Who acts: father, merit · What happens: have, suffer, consider, fall, absent · To what, where: absence, many losses, Gelaleddin
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 (father, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 absence | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 absence | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 absence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 suffered | punct |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 losses | amod |
| 11 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 suffered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 considered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 considered | cc |
| 14 | Gelaleddin | Gelaleddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 considered | aux:pass |
| 16 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 burthen | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 burthen | det |
| 19 | additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 burthen | amod |
| 20 | burthen | burthen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 considered | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 family | det |
| 23 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burthen | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | merit's father | merit's absence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suffer | past | merit's father not said here | many losses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | consider | past · passive | Gelaleddin | as a additional burthen to a fallen family | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | absent | merit | nom absence «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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