Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 32
He now found one of his most frequent visitors accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized, and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison.
Who acts: officer, most frequent visitors, hopes, accuser · What happens: find, accuse, share, unpatroniz, clear, dismiss · To what, where: one, officer, hopes, confiscation, prison
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 (officer, most frequent visitors, hopes, accuser), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 visitors | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 visitors | nmod:poss |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 visitors | amod |
| 8 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 visitors | amod |
| 9 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 10 | accusing | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 visitors | acl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accusing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 treason | case |
| 13 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accusing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hopes | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hopes | case |
| 16 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accusing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 sharing | mark |
| 18 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hopes | acl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 confiscation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | confiscation | confiscation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sharing | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 unpatronized | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 unpatronized | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 yet | punct |
| 24 | unpatronized | unpatroniz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unsupported | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 unsupported | cc |
| 27 | unsupported | unsupported | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 unpatronized | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cleared | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 cleared | nsubj |
| 30 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 cleared | obj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 openness | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 openness | det |
| 34 | openness | openness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cleared | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 innocence | case |
| 36 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 openness | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 consistence | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 consistence | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 consistence | det |
| 40 | consistence | consistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 truth | case |
| 42 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 consistence | nmod |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 dismissed | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 dismissed | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 46 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 honour | case |
| 48 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 dismissed | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 perished | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 perished | cc |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 accuser | nmod:poss |
| 52 | accuser | accuser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 perished | nsubj |
| 53 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | parataxis |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 prison | case |
| 55 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 perished | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | officer | one of officer's most frequent visitors | now | the consistence of truth parataxis | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||
| 2 | accuse | gerund | officer's most frequent visitors not said here | officer | hopes | of treason | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of treason=Attribute | ||
| 3 | share | gerund | hopes not said here | officer's confiscation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | unpatroniz | participle | officer not said here | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | clear | past | officer | officer | by the openness of innocence | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source | |||
| 6 | dismiss | past · passive | officer | with honour | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | perish | participle | officer's accuser | prison | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | confiscate | officer | nom confiscation «act transitive»: poss=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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