Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 20
She saw his confusion, and disdained him: How, says she, dares the wretch hope my obedience, who thus shrinks at my glance?
Who acts: dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my · What happens: see, disdain, say, dare, hope, shrink · To what, where: confusion, Almamoulin, dignity, wretch, obedience · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 confusion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 disdained | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 disdained | cc |
| 7 | disdained | disdain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disdained | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 says | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 How | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 disdained | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dares | punct |
| 15 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wretch | det |
| 17 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dares | obj |
| 18 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dares | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 obedience | nmod:poss |
| 20 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hope | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shrinks | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 shrinks | nsubj |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 shrinks | advmod |
| 24 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 obedience | acl:relcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 glance | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 glance | nmod:poss |
| 27 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shrinks | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dignity | Almamoulin's confusion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer confusion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | disdain | past | Almamoulin | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | dignity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dare | present | the wretch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wretch=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hope | present | my obedience | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | shrink | present | my obedience | at my glance; thus property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at glance=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | confuse | Almamoulin | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | obey | my | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | glance | my | nom glance «act intransitive»: 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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