Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 24
As soon as I have married the grand vizier’s daughter, I will buy her twelve black eunuchs, the youngest and best that can be bought for money.
Who acts: I · What happens: marry, buy · To what, where: I, twelve black eunuchs, daughter
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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 buy | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 buy | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizier | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vizier | amod |
| 9 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 vizier | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 buy | iobj |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 eunuchs | nummod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eunuchs | amod |
| 19 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 buy | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 youngest | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youngest | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 eunuchs | appos |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 best | cc |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 youngest | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bought | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bought | aux:pass |
| 28 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 eunuchs | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 money | case |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bought | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · perfect · passive | I | the grand vizier's daughter obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | future | I | twelve black eunuchs | daughter | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary eunuch=Theme | ||
| 3 | buy | can · passive | twelve black eunuchs | for money | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for money=Beneficiary |
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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