Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 17
He then applied himself singly to his brothers and sisters, but found them all chained down by invariable attention to their own fortunes, and insensible of any other excellence than that which could bring some remedy for indigence.
Who acts: Gelaleddin, sisters · What happens: apply, find, chain down, bring · To what, where: Gelaleddin, sisters, remedy
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 (Gelaleddin, sisters), 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 | 3 applied | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 applied | advmod |
| 3 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 applied | obj |
| 5 | singly | singly | ADV | _ | 3 applied | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 applied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sisters | cc |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brothers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 applied | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 found | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 chained | compound:prt |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 attention | case |
| 19 | invariable | invariable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 attention | amod |
| 20 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chained | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fortunes | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fortunes | amod |
| 24 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chained | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 insensible | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 insensible | cc |
| 27 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 applied | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 excellence | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 excellence | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 excellence | amod |
| 31 | excellence | excellence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 insensible | obl |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 that | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 insensible | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bring | aux |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 insensible | ccomp |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 remedy | det |
| 38 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 indigence | case |
| 40 | indigence | indigence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | past | Gelaleddin | Gelaleddin | then | to Gelaleddin's brothers and sisters; singly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | past | Gelaleddin not said here | sisters = sister | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chain down | participle | sisters = sister not said here | by invariable attention; to sisters's own fortunes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to fortune=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | could | some remedy | for indigence; which nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme |
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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