Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 12
I beheld the angel of death coming forward like a whirlwind, and he smote me before I could deprecate the blow.
Who acts: I, angel · What happens: behold, come forward, smite, deprecate · To what, where: angel, me, blow
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, angel), 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 | 2 beheld | nsubj |
| 2 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | nmod |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 beheld | advcl |
| 8 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 whirlwind | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 whirlwind | det |
| 11 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smote | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smote | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 smote | nsubj |
| 15 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 beheld | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 smote | obj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 deprecate | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 deprecate | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 deprecate | aux |
| 20 | deprecate | deprecate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 smote | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 blow | det |
| 22 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deprecate | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | I | the angel of death | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come forward | gerund | I not said here | like a whirlwind; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smite | past | angel | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | deprecate | could | I | the blow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
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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