Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 9
He was now sufficiently composed to order a funeral of modest magnificence, suitable at once to the rank of Nouradin’s profession, and the reputation of his wealth.
What happens: compose, order, repute · To what, where: Almamoulin, funeral, wealth
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: 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 | 5 composed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 composed | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 composed | advmod |
| 4 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 5 composed | advmod |
| 5 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 order | mark |
| 7 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 composed | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 funeral | det |
| 9 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 order | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 magnificence | case |
| 11 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 magnificence | amod |
| 12 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 funeral | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suitable | punct |
| 14 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 magnificence | amod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 suitable | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rank | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rank | det |
| 19 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 once | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 profession | case |
| 21 | Nouradin | Nouradin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 profession | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Nouradin | case |
| 23 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rank | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reputation | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reputation | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 reputation | det |
| 27 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 composed | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wealth | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reputation | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past · passive | Almamoulin | now | the reputation of Almamoulin's wealth parataxis; sufficiently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | to-infinitive | a funeral of modest magnificence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme | |||||
| 3 | repute | Almamoulin's wealth | nom reputation «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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