Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 4

At length Nouradin felt himself seized with a slow malady; he called to him Almamoulin, his only son; and, dismissing his attendants, “My son,” says he, “behold here the weakness and fragility of man; look backward a few days, thy father was great and happy.

Who acts: Nouradin, father · What happens: feel, seize, call, dismiss, say, look · To what, where: Nouradin, length, India, attendants · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Nouradin, father), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obl
3	Nouradin	Nouradin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 felt	obj
6	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 felt	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 malady	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 malady	det
9	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 malady	amod
10	malady	malady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	obl
16	Almamoulin	Almamoulin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
19	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 son	amod
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Almamoulin	appos
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dismissing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dismissing	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dismissing	punct
24	dismissing	dismiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 felt	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 attendants	nmod:poss
26	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dismissing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 son	punct
29	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 attendants	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dismissing	parataxis
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 says	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 he	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 here	punct
37	behold	behold	INTJ	_	38 here	discourse
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 he	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 weakness	det
40	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 here	nsubj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fragility	cc
42	fragility	fragility	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 weakness	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 man	case
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fragility	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 look	punct
46	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 says	ccomp
47	backward	backward	ADV	_	46 look	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 days	det
49	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 days	amod
50	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 look	obl:unmarked
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 great	punct
52	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	53 father	nmod:poss
53	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 great	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 great	cop
55	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 look	parataxis
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 happy	cc
57	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 great	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Nouradin	Nouradin		length			tree rules
2	seize	participle	Nouradin not said here					with a slow malady	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call	past	Nouradin		India			Almamoulin xcomp	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	dismiss	gerund	Nouradin not said here	Nouradin's attendants and My son					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present		Nouradin					tree rules
6	look in a quote	infinitive					day	backward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is in a quote	past	thy father					great property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		thy father not said here						tree rules

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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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 4