Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 13
“This basket,” says he, “cost me, at the wholesale merchant’s, an hundred drachmas, which is all I have in the world.
Who acts: basket, hundred drachmas · What happens: say, cost, be · To what, where: Alnaschar, basket, wholesale merchant, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, hundred drachmas), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 basket | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 basket | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cost | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cost | punct |
| 10 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 cost | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 merchant | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchant | det |
| 15 | wholesale | wholesale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 merchant | amod |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cost | obl |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drachmas | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 drachmas | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 drachmas | nummod |
| 21 | drachmas | drachma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cost | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 have | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 have | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 drachmas | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | this basket | Alnaschar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | infinitive | this basket = basket | the wholesale merchant | a hundred drachmas parataxis | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme i=Value | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a hundred drachmas | the world | I nsubj; all, have property | tree rules |
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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