Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 19
When I have got together as much wealth as I can well desire, I will make a purchase of the finest house I can find, with lands, slaves, eunuchs, and horses.
Who acts: I · What happens: get together, desire, make, find, purchase · To what, where: much wealth, purchase, finest house
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wealth | amod |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 desire | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 desire | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 desire | aux |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 desire | advmod |
| 13 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 desire | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 purchase | det |
| 19 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 purchase | nmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 house | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lands | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 lands | case |
| 29 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 slaves | punct |
| 31 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lands | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eunuchs | punct |
| 33 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lands | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 horses | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 horses | cc |
| 36 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lands | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get together | present · perfect | I | much wealth | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | desire | can | I | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | make | future | I | a purchase of the finest house | with lands and slaves and eunuchs and horses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Product | |||
| 4 | find | can | I | the finest house not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | ||||
| 5 | purchase | the finest house | nom purchase «act 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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