Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 14
The nobles saw him with anger, the wise men of the state combined against him, the leaders of armies threatened his destruction.
Who acts: nobles, wise men, leaders, Almamoulin · What happens: see, combine, threaten, destroy · To what, where: Almamoulin, destruction
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 (nobles, wise men, leaders, 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 | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 anger | case |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 combined | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 combined | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 state | det |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | combined | combine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 combined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threatened | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 leaders | det |
| 19 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 threatened | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 armies | case |
| 21 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaders | nmod |
| 22 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 24 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threatened | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the nobles | Almamoulin | with anger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | combine | past | the wise men of the state | against Almamoulin | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | threaten | past | the leaders of armies | Almamoulin's destruction | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus destruction=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | destroy | Almamoulin | nom destruction «act 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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