Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 33
Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and could not forbear acting with his foot what he had in his thoughts; so that unluckily striking his basket of brittle ware, which was the foundation of all his grandeur, he kicked his glasses to a great distance from him into the street, and broke them into ten thousand pieces.
Who acts: Alnaschar, brittle ware · What happens: swallow up, not forbear, act, have, strike, be · To what, where: Alnaschar, chimerical vision, thoughts, basket, foundation, glasses
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 (Alnaschar, brittle ware), 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 | Alnaschar | Alnaschar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 swallowed | advmod |
| 4 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vision | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 vision | det |
| 8 | chimerical | chimerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vision | amod |
| 9 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forbear | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forbear | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forbear | advmod |
| 14 | forbear | forbear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swallowed | conj |
| 15 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 forbear | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 acting | obl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 acting | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 thoughts | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 kicked | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 46 kicked | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 29 striking | advmod |
| 29 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 kicked | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 basket | nmod:poss |
| 31 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 striking | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ware | case |
| 33 | brittle | brittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ware | amod |
| 34 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 basket | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 foundation | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 foundation | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 foundation | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 foundation | det |
| 39 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ware | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 grandeur | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 grandeur | det:predet |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 grandeur | nmod:poss |
| 43 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 foundation | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 striking | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kicked | nsubj |
| 46 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallowed | parataxis |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 48 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 kicked | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 distance | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 distance | det |
| 51 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 distance | amod |
| 52 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kicked | obl |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 him | case |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 distance | nmod |
| 55 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 street | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 street | det |
| 57 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 kicked | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 broke | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 broke | cc |
| 60 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 kicked | conj |
| 61 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 broke | obj |
| 62 | into | into | ADP | _ | 65 pieces | case |
| 63 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 64 thousand | compound |
| 64 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 65 pieces | nummod |
| 65 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 broke | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow up | past · passive | Alnaschar | this chimerical vision | entirely property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | not forbear | could | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | act | gerund | with Alnaschar's foot; what obj | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Alnaschar | Alnaschar's thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | strike | gerund | Alnaschar not said here | Alnaschar's basket of brittle ware | unluckily property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | |||
| 6 | is a | past | brittle ware | the foundation | of Alnaschar's grandeur | tree rules | |||
| 7 | kick | past | Alnaschar | Alnaschar's glasses | the street | to a great distance from basket result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent glass=Patient to distance=Result | ||
| 8 | break | past | Alnaschar not said here | glasses = glass | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 9 | think | Alnaschar | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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