Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 8
He then retired to his own chamber, as overborn with affliction, and there read the inventory of his new possessions, which swelled his heart with such transports, that he no longer lamented his father’s death.
Who acts: Almamoulin, new possessions, father · What happens: retire, read, swell, lament, possess, die · To what, where: inventory, heart, death
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, new possessions, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 retired | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 retired | advmod |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overborn | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 overborn | case |
| 10 | overborn | overborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 retired | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 affliction | case |
| 12 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overborn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 read | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 read | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 read | expl |
| 16 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retired | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inventory | det |
| 18 | inventory | inventory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 read | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 possessions | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 possessions | amod |
| 22 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 inventory | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swelled | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 swelled | nsubj |
| 25 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 possessions | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swelled | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 transports | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 transports | amod |
| 30 | transports | transport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swelled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lamented | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 lamented | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lamented | nsubj |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 longer | advmod |
| 35 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 lamented | advmod |
| 36 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 read | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 death | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 father | case |
| 40 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lamented | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | Almamoulin | then | to Almamoulin's own chamber | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | read | past | the inventory of Almamoulin's new possessions | there | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inventory=Topic | ||||
| 3 | swell | past | Almamoulin's new possessions | Almamoulin's heart | with such transports | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient heart=Extent | |||
| 4 | lament | past | Almamoulin | Almamoulin's father's death | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | possess | Almamoulin | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | Almamoulin's father | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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