Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 2
His warehouses were filled with all the commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature, every curiosity of art, whatever was useful, hastened to his hand.
Who acts: whatever · What happens: fill, be, hasten · To what, where: warehouses, hand
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 (whatever), 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 warehouses | nmod:poss |
| 2 | warehouses | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 commodities | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 commodities | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 commodities | det |
| 8 | commodities | commodity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nations | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nations | det |
| 11 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 nations | amod |
| 12 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commodities | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rarity | punct |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 rarity | det |
| 15 | rarity | rarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nature | case |
| 17 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rarity | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 curiosity | punct |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 curiosity | det |
| 20 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rarity | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 art | case |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 curiosity | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 useful | punct |
| 24 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 useful | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 useful | cop |
| 26 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 curiosity | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hastened | punct |
| 28 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 useful | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hastened | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | India's warehouses | with all commodities of the remotest nations; every rarity of nature and every curiosity of art obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with commodity=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | past | whatever | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | whatever not said here | India's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hand=Destination |
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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