Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 20
Ortogrul looked, and espied a little well, out of which issued a small rivulet.
Who acts: Ortogrul · What happens: look, espy, issue · To what, where: little, small rivulet
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), 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 espied | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 espied | cc |
| 5 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 espied | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 little | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 issued | punct |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 issued | nsubj |
| 13 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 espied | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rivulet | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rivulet | amod |
| 16 | rivulet | rivulet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 issued | obj |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | espy | past | Ortogrul not said here | a little | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | issue | past | a small rivulet | which nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rivulet=Theme |
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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