Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 2
No sooner did Gelaleddin appear at Bassora, than his virtues and abilities raised him to distinction.
Who acts: Gelaleddin, virtues · What happens: appear, raise · To what, where: Bassora, Gelaleddin, distinction
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, virtues), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 appear | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appear | aux |
| 4 | Gelaleddin | Gelaleddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appear | nsubj |
| 5 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Bassora | case |
| 7 | Bassora | Bassora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appear | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 raised | punct |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 raised | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 11 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 raised | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 abilities | cc |
| 13 | abilities | ability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 virtues | conj |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appear | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 raised | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 distinction | case |
| 17 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 raised | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past · do-support | Gelaleddin | Bassora | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bassora=Location | |||
| 2 | raise | past | Bassora's virtues and abilities | Gelaleddin | distinction | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to distinction=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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