Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 31
The guests stood awhile aghast, then stole imperceptibly away, and he was led off without a single voice to witness his integrity.
Who acts: guests · What happens: stand, steal, lead off · To what, where: officer
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 (guests), 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 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 5 aghast | advmod |
| 5 | aghast | aghast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stole | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stole | advmod |
| 8 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 9 | imperceptibly | imperceptibly | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 stole | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux:pass |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 led | compound:prt |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 witness | mark |
| 22 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 voice | nmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 integrity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | integrity | integrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 witness | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the guests | aghast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | then | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead off | past · passive | officer | without a single voice witness officer's integrity | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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