Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 15
What words can paint the rapture of the starving merchant, when the captain offered to transport him to his native country, if he would reward him with half the jewels of his casket?
Who acts: words, captain · What happens: paint, starve, offer, transport, reward · To what, where: rapture, captain, native country, Peace
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 (words, captain), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 paint | obj |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paint | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 paint | aux |
| 4 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rapture | det |
| 6 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paint | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 merchant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 9 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 merchant | amod |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rapture | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 offered | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 offered | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 captain | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | nsubj |
| 15 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rapture | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 transport | mark |
| 17 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 offered | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 transport | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transport | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reward | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 reward | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reward | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 reward | aux |
| 27 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 transport | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reward | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 jewels | case |
| 30 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 32 jewels | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 jewels | det |
| 32 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reward | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 casket | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 casket | nmod:poss |
| 35 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 jewels | nmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 paint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | can | words | the rapture of the starving merchant | What obj | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient rapture=Result | |||
| 2 | starve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | offer | participle | the captain | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | transport | to-infinitive | the captain not said here | captain | captain's native country | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 5 | reward a condition, not said to happen | would | captain | Peace | with half jewels of Peace's casket | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with jewel=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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