Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 18
I shall then deal in diamonds, pearls, and all sorts of rich stones.
Who acts: I · What happens: deal, sort · To what, where: sorts, diamonds, rich stones
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 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deal | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 deal | advmod |
| 4 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 diamonds | case |
| 6 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deal | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pearls | punct |
| 8 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 diamonds | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorts | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sorts | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sorts | det |
| 12 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 deal | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stones | case |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stones | amod |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sorts | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | shall | I | all sorts of rich stones | diamonds and pearls | then | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | sort | rich stones | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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