Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 26
His tables were always covered with delicacies; wines of every vintage sparkled in his bowels, and his lamps scattered perfumes.
Who acts: lamps · What happens: cover, sparkle, scatter · To what, where: tables, vintage, bowels, perfumes
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 (lamps), 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 tables | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 covered | advmod |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 delicacies | case |
| 7 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 wines | punct |
| 9 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vintage | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 vintage | det |
| 12 | vintage | vintage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wines | nmod |
| 13 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 vintage | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bowels | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bowels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bowels | bowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sparkled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scattered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 scattered | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lamps | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 scattered | nsubj |
| 21 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 22 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 scattered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | Almamoulin's tables | with delicacies; wines of every vintage obl; always property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with delicacy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | participle | every vintage not said here | Almamoulin's bowels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bowel=Location | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past | Almamoulin's lamps | perfumes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme |
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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