Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 25
He therefore returned to Samarcand, and set open his doors to those whom idleness sends out in search of pleasure.
Who acts: Almamoulin, idleness · What happens: return, set, send out, search · To what, where: Samarcand, open doors, search, pleasure
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, idleness), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Samarcand | case |
| 5 | Samarcand | Samarcand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 doors | amod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 doors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sends | obj |
| 15 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sends | nsubj |
| 16 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sends | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 search | case |
| 19 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sends | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pleasure | case |
| 21 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 search | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Almamoulin | Samarcand | therefore property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to samarcand=Result | |||
| 2 | set | past | Almamoulin not said here | Almamoulin's open doors | to those | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient door=Result | |||
| 3 | send out | present | idleness | search of pleasure | whom obj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme in search=Destination | |||
| 4 | search | pleasure | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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