Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 33
The multitude were struck at once with the precept and example; and the Caliph, to whom the event was related, that he might be liberal beyond the power of gold, commanded it to be recorded for the benefit of posterity.
Who acts: event, Caliph · What happens: strike, be, command, record · To what, where: multitude, event · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (event, Caliph), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 multitude | det |
| 2 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | aux:pass |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 struck | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 precept | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 precept | det |
| 9 | precept | precept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 example | cc |
| 11 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 precept | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 commanded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 commanded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Caliph | det |
| 15 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 commanded | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 related | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 related | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 event | det |
| 20 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 related | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 related | cop |
| 22 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Caliph | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 liberal | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 liberal | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 liberal | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 liberal | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 liberal | cop |
| 28 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 related | conj |
| 29 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 power | det |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 liberal | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gold | case |
| 33 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 power | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Caliph | punct |
| 35 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 commanded | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 recorded | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 recorded | aux:pass |
| 39 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 commanded | advcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 benefit | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 benefit | det |
| 42 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 recorded | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 posterity | case |
| 44 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 benefit | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | the multitude | with the precept and example | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with precept=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the event | to the Caliph; related property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | might | Caliph | beyond the power of gold; liberal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | command | past | the Caliph | event | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | record | to-infinitive · passive | the Caliph not said here | for the benefit of posterity | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» |
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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