Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 8
Alnaschar, says the fable, was a very idle fellow, that never would set his hand to any business during his father’s life.
Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: say, be, not set · To what, where: fable, idle fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alnaschar | punct |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fable | det |
| 5 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fellow | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 idle | advmod |
| 10 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 set | obj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 set | advmod |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fellow | acl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 business | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 business | det |
| 21 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | during | during | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 father | case |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alnaschar | the fable | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fable=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a idle fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not set | would | a idle fellow | during Alnaschar's father's life | to any business; Alnaschar's hand obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme hand=Destination |
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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