Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 18
Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering its foam on the impending woods.
Who acts: Ortogrul, torrent, thunder · What happens: look, see, tumble down, roar, scatter, impend · To what, where: torrent, rocks, foam, impending woods
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ortogrul, torrent, thunder), 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 | Ortogrul | Ortogrul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 torrent | det |
| 7 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 torrent | acl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 rocks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tumbling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 roaring | punct |
| 13 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 noise | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 noise | det |
| 16 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roaring | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thunder | case |
| 18 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noise | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scattering | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 scattering | cc |
| 21 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 roaring | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foam | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scattering | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woods | det |
| 26 | impending | impend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 woods | amod |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 scattering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ortogrul | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Ortogrul not said here | a torrent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torrent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tumble down | gerund | a torrent not said here | the rocks | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roar | gerund | Ortogrul not said here | with the noise of thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | scatter | gerund | Ortogrul not said here | thunder's foam | the impending woods | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foam=Theme on wood=Destination | |||
| 6 | impend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | noise | thunder | nom noise «event 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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