Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 27
The sound of the flute, and the voice of the singer, chased away sadness; every hour was crowded with pleasure; and the day ended and began with feasts and dances, and revelry and merriment.
Who acts: voice, hour, day · What happens: chase away, be, end, begin · To what, where: sadness, revelry, sound
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 (voice, hour, day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flute | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flute | det |
| 5 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 voice | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 singer | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 singer | det |
| 12 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chased | punct |
| 14 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 voice | acl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 chased | advmod |
| 16 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chased | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 crowded | punct |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 hour | det |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crowded | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crowded | cop |
| 21 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sound | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 pleasure | case |
| 23 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crowded | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ended | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ended | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ended | nsubj |
| 28 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crowded | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ended | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 feasts | case |
| 32 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 began | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dances | cc |
| 34 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feasts | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 revelry | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 revelry | cc |
| 37 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ended | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 merriment | cc |
| 39 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 revelry | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase away | participle | the voice of the singer not said here | sadness | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | every hour | with pleasure; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | end | past | the day | revelry and merriment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the day not said here | with feasts and dances | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with feast=Subeventuality |
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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