Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 16
He then sought to strengthen himself, by an alliance with the princes of Tartary, and offered the price of kingdoms for a wife of noble birth.
Who acts: Almamoulin · What happens: seek, strengthen, offer · To what, where: Almamoulin, price
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sought | advmod |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 strengthen | mark |
| 5 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sought | xcomp |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 strengthen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 alliance | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 alliance | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 alliance | det |
| 10 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strengthen | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 princes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princes | det |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 alliance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tartary | case |
| 15 | Tartary | Tartary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 princes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 offered | cc |
| 18 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 price | det |
| 20 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdoms | case |
| 22 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 price | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 birth | case |
| 27 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 birth | amod |
| 28 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wife | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Almamoulin | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strengthen not said to happen | to-infinitive | Almamoulin not said here | Almamoulin | by a alliance with the princes of Tartary | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | offer | past | Almamoulin not said here | the price of kingdoms | for a wife of noble birth goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent price=Theme for wife=Goal |
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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