Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 4

After a few years, having passed through all the exercises of probation, Gelaleddin was invited to a professor’s seat, and intreated to increase the splendour of Bassora.

What happens: pass, invite, intreat, increase, exercise · To what, where: exercises, Gelaleddin, splendour, probation

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	After	after	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 years	punct
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 exercises	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 exercises	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 exercises	det
11	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 probation	case
13	probation	probation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exercises	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 invited	punct
15	Gelaleddin	Gelaleddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 invited	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 invited	aux:pass
17	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 passed	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 seat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 professor	det
20	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seat	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 professor	case
22	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 invited	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 intreated	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 intreated	cc
25	intreated	intreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 increase	mark
27	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 intreated	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 splendour	det
29	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 increase	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Bassora	case
31	Bassora	Bassora	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 splendour	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund · perfect		all exercises of probation	year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through exercise=Location
2	invite	past · passive	Gelaleddin			to a professor's seat	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	intreat	past					tree rules
4	increase	to-infinitive	the splendour of Bassora				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer splendour=Patient
5	exercise		probation				nom exercise «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 4