Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 5

Gelaleddin affected to deliberate on the proposal, with which, before he considered it, he resolved to comply; and next morning retired to a garden planted for the recreation of the students, and entering a solitary walk, began to meditate upon his future life.

Who acts: Gelaleddin, students · What happens: affect, deliberate, consider, resolve, comply, retire · To what, where: proposal, next morning, garden, solitary walk

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, students), 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	Gelaleddin	Gelaleddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 affected	nsubj
2	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 deliberate	mark
4	deliberate	deliberate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 affected	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 proposal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 proposal	det
7	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deliberate	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 which	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 deliberate	advcl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 considered	punct
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 considered	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 considered	nsubj
14	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 affected	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 considered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 resolved	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 resolved	nsubj
18	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 considered	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 comply	mark
20	comply	comply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 resolved	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 began	obl
25	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 morning	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 garden	det
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 retired	obl
29	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 garden	acl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 recreation	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 recreation	det
32	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 planted	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 students	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 students	det
35	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 recreation	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 began	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
38	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 began	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 walk	det
40	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 walk	amod
41	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 entering	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 entering	punct
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 affected	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 meditate	mark
45	meditate	meditate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 life	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 life	nmod:poss
48	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 life	amod
49	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 meditate	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	affect	past	Gelaleddin				tree rules
2	deliberate	to-infinitive	Gelaleddin not said here			on the proposal; which advcl:relcl	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on proposal=Topic
3	consider	past	Gelaleddin	proposal			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
4	resolve	past	Gelaleddin				tree rules
5	comply	to-infinitive	Gelaleddin not said here				tree rules
6	retire	participle		next morning not said here		to a garden	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	plant	participle		a garden not said here		for the recreation of the students	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	enter	gerund		a solitary walk			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme walk=Destination
9	begin	past	Gelaleddin not said here		morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	meditate	to-infinitive	Gelaleddin not said here			upon Gelaleddin's future life	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	recreate		the students				nom recreation «act intransitive»: of=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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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 5