Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 17
His suit was generally rejected, and his presents refused; but a princess of Astracan once condescended to admit him to her presence.
Who acts: presents · What happens: reject, refuse, condescend, admit · To what, where: suit, princess, Almamoulin, presence
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 (presents), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 suit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejected | aux:pass |
| 4 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 5 rejected | advmod |
| 5 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 refused | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 refused | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 presents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 refused | nsubj |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejected | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 condescended | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 condescended | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 condescended | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Astracan | case |
| 16 | Astracan | Astracan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 princess | nmod |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 condescended | advmod |
| 18 | condescended | condescend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rejected | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 admit | mark |
| 20 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 condescended | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 admit | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 presence | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 presence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 admit | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reject | past · passive | Almamoulin's suit | generally property | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | Almamoulin's presents | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | condescend | participle · passive | a princess of Astracan | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | Almamoulin | princess's presence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to presence=Recipient |
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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