Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 24
Ortogrul looked, and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty; but following the rivulet from the well, he traced it to a wide lake, which the supply, slow and constant, kept always full.
Who acts: Ortogrul, wide lake · What happens: look, perceive, follow, trace, supply, keep · To what, where: channel, rivulet, well
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, wide lake), 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 perceived | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 perceived | cc |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 channel | det |
| 7 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dry | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dry | det |
| 10 | torrent | torrent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dry | amod |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 channel | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dusty | cc |
| 13 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dry | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 traced | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 traced | cc |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 traced | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rivulet | det |
| 18 | rivulet | rivulet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 well | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 well | det |
| 21 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rivulet | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 following | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 traced | nsubj |
| 24 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 traced | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 lake | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lake | det |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lake | amod |
| 29 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traced | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 supply | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 supply | nsubj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 supply | det |
| 33 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lake | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 slow | punct |
| 35 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 supply | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 constant | cc |
| 37 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 slow | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kept | punct |
| 39 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 traced | parataxis |
| 40 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 full | advmod |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 kept | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | 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 | perceive | past | Ortogrul not said here | the channel of the torrent dry | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer channel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | Ortogrul not said here | the rivulet | the well | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rivulet=Theme from well=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | trace | past | Ortogrul | rivulet | to a wide lake | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | supply | a wide lake | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | keep | participle | full property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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