Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 23
He built palaces, he laid out gardens, he changed the face of the land, he transplanted forests, he levelled mountains, opened prospects into distant regions, poured fountains from the tops of turrets, and rolled rivers through new channels.
Who acts: Almamoulin · What happens: build, lay out, change, transplant, levell, open · To what, where: palaces, gardens, face, forests, mountains, distant regions
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 | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laid | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laid | nsubj |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 laid | compound:prt |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 laid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 transplanted | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 transplanted | nsubj |
| 19 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 changed | conj |
| 20 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 transplanted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 levelled | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 levelled | nsubj |
| 23 | levelled | levell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 transplanted | conj |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 levelled | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prospects | punct |
| 26 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 prospects | amod |
| 27 | prospects | prospect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mountains | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 regions | case |
| 29 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 regions | amod |
| 30 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 levelled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fountains | punct |
| 32 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 fountains | amod |
| 33 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 regions | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 tops | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tops | det |
| 36 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fountains | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 turrets | case |
| 38 | turrets | turret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 tops | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rolled | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rolled | cc |
| 41 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | parataxis |
| 42 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rolled | obj |
| 43 | through | through | ADP | _ | 45 channels | case |
| 44 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 channels | amod |
| 45 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rolled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Almamoulin | palaces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Product | ||||
| 2 | lay out | past | Almamoulin | gardens | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Result | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Almamoulin | the face of the land | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | transplant | past | Almamoulin | forests | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 5 | levell | past | Almamoulin | mountains and opened prospects | distant regions and poured fountains from the tops of turrets | tree rules | |||
| 6 | open | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | pour | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 8 | roll | past | rivers | new channels | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent river=Theme through channel=Trajectory |
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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