Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 3
The streets were crowded with his carriages; the sea was covered with his ships; the streams of Oxus were wearied with conveyance, and every breeze of the sky wafted wealth to Nouradin.
Who acts: streets, breeze, sky · What happens: be, cover, weary, waft, breeze · To what, where: sea, streams, wealth, Nouradin
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 (streets, breeze, sky), 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 streets | det |
| 2 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowded | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | cop |
| 4 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 carriages | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 carriages | nmod:poss |
| 7 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowded | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 covered | aux:pass |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crowded | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ships | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ships | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wearied | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 streams | det |
| 18 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wearied | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Oxus | case |
| 20 | Oxus | Oxus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 streams | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wearied | aux:pass |
| 22 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crowded | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 conveyance | case |
| 24 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wearied | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wafted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wafted | cc |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 breeze | det |
| 28 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wafted | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sky | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sky | det |
| 31 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 breeze | nmod |
| 32 | wafted | waft | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | conj |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wafted | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Nouradin | case |
| 35 | Nouradin | Nouradin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 wafted | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the streets | with India's carriages; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the sea | with India's ships | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ship=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weary | past · passive | the streams of Oxus | with conveyance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | waft | past | every breeze of the sky | wealth | Nouradin | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wealth=Theme | |||
| 5 | breeze | the sky | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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