Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 30
Ortogrul heard his flatters without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them.
Who acts: Ortogrul · What happens: hear, find, believe · To what, where: flatters, Ortogrul
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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flatters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flatters | flatter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 delight | case |
| 6 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 believe | mark |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unable | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ortogrul | Ortogrul's flatters | without delight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flatter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | Ortogrul | Ortogrul | unable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | believe | to-infinitive | Ortogrul not said here | flatters = flatter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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