Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 29
Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted.
What happens: try, exhaust · To what, where: art, source
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: 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 art | det |
| 2 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 praise | case |
| 4 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 art | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | aux:pass |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exhausted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 exhausted | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 source | det |
| 10 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fiction | case |
| 12 | adulatory | adulatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fiction | amod |
| 13 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 source | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 15 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tried | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · passive | every art of praise | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | exhaust | past · passive | every source of adulatory fiction | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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