Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 18
It was now known in the neighbourhood that Gelaleddin was returned, and he sat for some days in expectation that the learned would visit him for consultation, or the great for entertainment.
Who acts: Gelaleddin · What happens: know, return, sit, learn, visit · To what, where: remedy, neighbourhood, Gelaleddin, expectation
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 neighbourhood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 neighbourhood | det |
| 7 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 returned | mark |
| 9 | Gelaleddin | Gelaleddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 returned | aux:pass |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 days | det |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sat | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 expectation | case |
| 20 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 visit | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 learned | det |
| 23 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 visit | csubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 visit | aux |
| 25 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sat | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 visit | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 consultation | case |
| 28 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 visit | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 great | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 great | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 great | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sat | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 entertainment | case |
| 34 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 great | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | remedy | the neighbourhood | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | return | past · passive | Gelaleddin | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | Gelaleddin | expectation | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in expectation=Location | |||
| 4 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | visit | would | Gelaleddin not said here | Gelaleddin | for consultation | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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