Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 25
I must afterwards make my father-in-law a visit, with a great train of equipage.
Who acts: I · What happens: make · To what, where: visit, father
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 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 visit | det |
| 12 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 train | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 train | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 train | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 train | amod |
| 17 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 equipage | case |
| 19 | equipage | equipage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 train | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | I | a visit | my father | law conj; a great train of equipage parataxis; afterwards property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset father=Beneficiary visit=Product |
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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