Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 21
The sprightly were silenced, and went away to censure in some other place his arrogance and his pedantry; and the dull listened quietly for a while, and then wondered why any man should take pains to obtain so much knowledge which would never do him good.
Who acts: dull, man · What happens: silence, go away, censure, listen, wonder, take · To what, where: other place, pains, much knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dull, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 silenced | det |
| 2 | sprightly | sprightly | ADV | _ | 4 silenced | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silenced | aux:pass |
| 4 | silenced | silence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silenced | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 censure | mark |
| 10 | censure | censure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 place | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 censure | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arrogance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arrogance | arrogance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pedantry | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pedantry | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pedantry | pedantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrogance | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 listened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 listened | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dull | det |
| 23 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 listened | nsubj |
| 24 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silenced | parataxis |
| 25 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 24 listened | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 while | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 while | det |
| 28 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 listened | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wondered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wondered | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 wondered | advmod |
| 32 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 listened | conj |
| 33 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 take | advmod |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 take | aux |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wondered | ccomp |
| 38 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 obtain | mark |
| 40 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 take | csubj |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 much | advmod |
| 42 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 knowledge | amod |
| 43 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 obtain | obj |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 do | obj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 do | aux |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 do | advmod |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 knowledge | acl:relcl |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 do | obj |
| 49 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 do | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | silence | past · passive | sprightly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | |||||
| 2 | go away | past | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | censure | to-infinitive | some other place | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | past | the dull | while | quietly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | the dull not said here | then | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | should | any man | pains | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 7 | obtain | to-infinitive | much knowledge | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not do | would | much knowledge | Gelaleddin obj | tree rules |
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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