Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 7
Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest sorrow, and sat two hours in profound meditation, without perusing the paper which he held in his hand.
Who acts: Almamoulin, paper · What happens: love, touch, sit, peruse, hold · To what, where: father, profound meditation, paper, hand
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 (Almamoulin, paper), 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 | Almamoulin | Almamoulin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 touched | aux:pass |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loved | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 while | det |
| 11 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sorrow | case |
| 13 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sorrow | amod |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hours | nummod |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sat | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 meditation | case |
| 21 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meditation | amod |
| 22 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 perusing | punct |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 perusing | mark |
| 25 | perusing | peruse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sat | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 paper | det |
| 27 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perusing | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 held | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 held | nsubj |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 paper | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hand | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hand | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 held | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's father | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | touch | past · passive | Almamoulin not said here | while | with honest sorrow | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Almamoulin not said here | profound meditation | hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meditation=Location | |||
| 4 | peruse | gerund | Almamoulin not said here | the paper | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | past | the paper | Almamoulin's hand | Almamoulin nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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