Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 22
He then contracted his desires to more private and domestic pleasures.
Who acts: Almamoulin · What happens: contract, desire · To what, where: desires
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 contracted | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 contracted | advmod |
| 3 | contracted | contract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 desires | nmod:poss |
| 5 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contracted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pleasures | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 pleasures | amod |
| 8 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pleasures | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 domestic | cc |
| 10 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 private | conj |
| 11 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contracted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contract | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's desires | then | to more private pleasures result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent desire=Patient to pleasure=Result | ||
| 2 | desire | Almamoulin | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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