Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 14
I shall quickly make two hundred of it, by selling it in retail.
Who acts: I · What happens: make, sell · To what, where: two hundred, world, retail
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hundred | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 selling | punct |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 selling | mark |
| 11 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 make | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 selling | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 retail | case |
| 14 | retail | retail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 selling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | shall | I | two hundred of world | quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Product | |||
| 2 | sell | gerund | I not said here | world | retail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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