Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 22
At this moment I was driven by some secret and irresistible power through the glowing system of creation, and passed innumerable worlds in a moment.
Who acts: secret power · What happens: drive, glow, pass · To what, where: I, glowing system, innumerable worlds
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 (secret power), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driven | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 driven | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driven | aux:pass |
| 6 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 power | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 power | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 irresistible | cc |
| 11 | irresistible | irresistible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 secret | conj |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driven | obl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 system | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 system | det |
| 15 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 system | amod |
| 16 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driven | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 creation | case |
| 18 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 system | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driven | conj |
| 22 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 worlds | amod |
| 23 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 moment | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · passive | some secret power | I | the glowing system of creation | moment | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme through system=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pass | past | some secret power not said here | innumerable worlds | moment | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory |
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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