Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 19
But who would be pleased or instructed in the mansions of poverty?
What happens: be, instruct · To what, where: mansions
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 pleased | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | cop |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 instructed | cc |
| 7 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 pleased | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mansions | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mansions | det |
| 10 | mansions | mansion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 instructed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 poverty | case |
| 12 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mansions | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | who nsubj; pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | participle | the mansions of poverty | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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