Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 1
In the reign of Jenghiz Khan, conqueror of the East, in the city of Samarcand, lived Nouradin the merchant, renowned throughout all the regions of India for the extent of his commerce, and the integrity of his dealings.
Who acts: India · What happens: live, renown, extend, deal · To what, where: Nouradin, reign, merchant, commerce
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (India), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 reign | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reign | det |
| 3 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Jenghiz | case |
| 5 | Jenghiz | Jenghiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reign | nmod |
| 6 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jenghiz | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 conqueror | punct |
| 8 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Jenghiz | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 East | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 East | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 conqueror | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 city | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reign | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Samarcand | case |
| 17 | Samarcand | Samarcand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reign | punct |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Nouradin | Nouradin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 renowned | punct |
| 24 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 merchant | acl |
| 25 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 28 regions | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 regions | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 regions | det |
| 28 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 renowned | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 India | case |
| 30 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 regions | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 extent | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 extent | det |
| 33 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 renowned | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 commerce | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 commerce | nmod:poss |
| 36 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 extent | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 integrity | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 integrity | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 integrity | det |
| 40 | integrity | integrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 dealings | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 dealings | nmod:poss |
| 43 | dealings | dealing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 integrity | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Nouradin | the reign of Jenghiz and the city of Samarcand | the integrity of India's dealings obl; the merchant obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | renown | participle | the merchant not said here | throughout all regions of India | for the extent of India's commerce | tree rules | |||
| 3 | extend | India's commerce | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | deal | India | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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