Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 11
As I was sitting alone in my Haram, with my lamp burning before me, computing the product of my merchandize, and exulting in the increase of my wealth, I fell into a deep sleep, and the hand of him who dwells in the third heaven was upon me.
Who acts: I, lamp, hand · What happens: sit, burn, compute, exult, fall, dwell · To what, where: Haram, product, increase, deep sleep, third heaven
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lamp, hand), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 sitting | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 fell | advcl |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 sitting | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Haram | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Haram | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Haram | Haram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burning | punct |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 burning | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burning | nsubj |
| 13 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 burning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 computing | punct |
| 17 | computing | compute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 burning | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 product | det |
| 19 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 computing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 merchandize | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 merchandize | nmod:poss |
| 22 | merchandize | merchandize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 product | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exulting | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 exulting | cc |
| 25 | exulting | exult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 increase | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 increase | det |
| 28 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exulting | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wealth | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 increase | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 sleep | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 sleep | det |
| 37 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 sleep | amod |
| 38 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 me | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 me | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 hand | det |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 me | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hand | nmod |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 dwells | nsubj |
| 46 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 hand | acl:relcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 heaven | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 heaven | det |
| 49 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 50 heaven | amod |
| 50 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 dwells | obl |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 me | cop |
| 52 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 me | case |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 fell | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | I | my Haram | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in haram=Location | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | my lamp | before me | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location | ||||
| 3 | compute | gerund | my lamp not said here | the product of my merchandize | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent product=Result | ||||
| 4 | exult | gerund | I not said here | the increase of my wealth | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | I | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 6 | dwell | present | the hand of Carazan | the third heaven | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location | ||||
| 7 | is | past | upon me; the hand of Carazan appos | tree rules |
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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