Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 11
He then cast a casket of jewels on the sand, as trifles of no use; and crept, feeble and trembling, to an eminence, where he was accustomed to sit to watch the setting sun, and to give signal to any ship that might haply approach the island.
Who acts: God, ship · What happens: cast, creep, tremble, accustom, sit, watch · To what, where: casket, eminence, God, setting sun, signal, ship
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, ship), 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 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cast | advmod |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 casket | det |
| 5 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jewels | case |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 casket | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jewels | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trifles | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 trifles | case |
| 13 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 jewels | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 use | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 use | det |
| 16 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trifles | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crept | cc |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feeble | punct |
| 21 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crept | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trembling | cc |
| 23 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 feeble | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eminence | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 eminence | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 eminence | det |
| 27 | eminence | eminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 accustomed | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 accustomed | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 accustomed | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 32 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 eminence | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sit | mark |
| 34 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 accustomed | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 watch | mark |
| 36 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sit | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sun | det |
| 38 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sun | compound |
| 39 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watch | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 give | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 give | cc |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 give | mark |
| 43 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sit | conj |
| 44 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 give | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 ship | case |
| 46 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 ship | det |
| 47 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 give | obl |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 approach | nsubj |
| 49 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 approach | aux |
| 50 | haply | haply | ADV | _ | 51 approach | advmod |
| 51 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 ship | acl:relcl |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 island | det |
| 53 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 approach | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | God | a casket of jewels on the sand and trifles of no use | then | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Product | |||
| 2 | creep | past | God not said here | a eminence | feeble property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to eminence=Destination | |||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | God not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | accustom | past · passive | God | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sit | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | the setting sun | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | signal | any ship | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to ship=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | approach | might | any ship | the island | haply property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
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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