Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 25
He now returned to Bassora, wearied and disgusted, but confident of resuming his former rank, and revelling again in satiety of praise.
Who acts: service · What happens: return, weary, disgust, resume · To what, where: Bassora, former rank, satiety
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 (service), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Bassora | case |
| 5 | Bassora | Bassora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wearied | punct |
| 7 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Bassora | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disgusted | cc |
| 9 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wearied | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 confident | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 confident | cc |
| 12 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 resuming | mark |
| 14 | resuming | resume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 confident | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rank | nmod:poss |
| 16 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rank | amod |
| 17 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resuming | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 revelling | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 revelling | cc |
| 20 | revelling | revelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rank | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 resuming | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 satiety | case |
| 23 | satiety | satiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resuming | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 praise | case |
| 25 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 satiety | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | service | Bassora | now | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bassora=Result | |||
| 2 | weary | participle | Bassora not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | disgust | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | resume | gerund | service not said here | service's former rank and revelling | satiety of praise | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Eventuality |
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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