Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 20
He then frequented places of public resort, and endeavoured to attract notice by the copiousness of his talk.
Who acts: Gelaleddin · What happens: frequent, endeavour, attract, talk · To what, where: places, notice
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 frequented | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 frequented | advmod |
| 3 | frequented | frequent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frequented | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 resort | case |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 resort | amod |
| 7 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 places | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 endeavoured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 endeavoured | cc |
| 10 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frequented | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 attract | mark |
| 12 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 13 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attract | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 copiousness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 copiousness | det |
| 16 | copiousness | copiousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attract | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 talk | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 talk | nmod:poss |
| 19 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 copiousness | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frequented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frequent | past | Gelaleddin | places of public resort | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | endeavour | past | Gelaleddin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attract | to-infinitive | Gelaleddin not said here | notice | by the copiousness of Gelaleddin's talk | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Patient | |||
| 4 | talk | Gelaleddin | nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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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