Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 10
The two next nights he spent in visiting the tower and the caverns, and found the treasures greater to his eye than to his imagination.
Who acts: two next nights, Almamoulin · What happens: spend, visit, find, imagine · To what, where: tower
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 (two next nights, Almamoulin), 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 | 4 nights | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nights | nummod |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nights | amod |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spent | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 visiting | mark |
| 8 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spent | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visiting | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caverns | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 caverns | det |
| 13 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tower | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spent | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 treasures | det |
| 18 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 greater | nsubj |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 found | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 eye | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eye | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 imagination | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 imagination | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 26 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | the two next nights | Almamoulin nsubj | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | the two next nights not said here | the tower and the caverns | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the two next nights not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | imagine | Almamoulin | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: 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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