Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 15
Almamoulin was informed of his danger: he put on the robe of mourning in the presence of his enemies, and appeased them with gold, and gems, and supplication.
Who acts: Almamoulin · What happens: inform, put, appease · To what, where: Almamoulin, gems, robe, enemies
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 (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 | Almamoulin | Almamoulin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 informed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | aux:pass |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 danger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 informed | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 robe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robe | det |
| 12 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mourning | case |
| 14 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 robe | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 presence | det |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 enemies | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 presence | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeased | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 appeased | cc |
| 23 | appeased | appease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appeased | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appeased | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gems | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gems | cc |
| 29 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 supplication | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 supplication | cc |
| 32 | supplication | supplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · passive | Almamoulin | of Almamoulin's danger | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of danger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Almamoulin | gems | the robe of mourning | in the presence of Almamoulin's enemies; supplication obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination | ||
| 3 | appease | past | Almamoulin not said here | enemies = enemy | with gold | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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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