Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 27
“When I have brought the princess to my house, I shall take a particular care to breed her in a due respect to me, before I give the reins to love and dalliance.
Who acts: basket · What happens: bring, take, breed, give, love · To what, where: princess, house, particular care, due respect, reins
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 (basket), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 take | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 care | det |
| 16 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 care | amod |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 breed | mark |
| 19 | breed | breed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 breed | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 respect | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 respect | det |
| 23 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 respect | amod |
| 24 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 breed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 respect | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 give | nsubj |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 reins | det |
| 32 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 love | mark |
| 34 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 give | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dalliance | cc |
| 36 | dalliance | dalliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 love | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | this basket = basket | the princess | my house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | shall | this basket = basket | a particular care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | breed in a quote | to-infinitive | this basket = basket not said here | princess | a due respect to me | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | present | this basket = basket | the reins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | to-infinitive | this basket = basket not said here | dalliance conj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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