Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 4
He surveyed the spaciousness of the apartments, admired the walks hung with golden tapestry, and the floors covered with silken carpets, and despised the simple neatness of his own little habitation.
Who acts: Ortogrul, walks · What happens: survey, admire, hang, cover, despise · To what, where: spaciousness, floors, simple neatness
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, walks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 surveyed | nsubj |
| 2 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spaciousness | det |
| 4 | spaciousness | spaciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surveyed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 apartments | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apartments | det |
| 7 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spaciousness | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 admired | punct |
| 9 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 surveyed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walks | det |
| 11 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 admired | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tapestry | case |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tapestry | amod |
| 15 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 covered | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floors | det |
| 19 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 surveyed | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 carpets | case |
| 22 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 carpets | amod |
| 23 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 despised | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 despised | cc |
| 26 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 surveyed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 neatness | det |
| 28 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 neatness | amod |
| 29 | neatness | neatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 despised | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 habitation | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 habitation | amod |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 habitation | amod |
| 34 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 neatness | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 surveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | past | Ortogrul | the spaciousness of the apartments | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaciousness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | Ortogrul not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hang | past | the walks | with golden tapestry | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle · passive | the floors | with silken carpets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with carpet=Theme | ||||
| 5 | despise | past | Ortogrul not said here | the simple neatness of Ortogrul's own little habitation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neatness=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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