Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 16
No sooner had this pityless commander received the stipulated sum, than he held a consultation with his crew, and they agreed to seize the remaining jewels, and leave the unhappy exile in the same helpless and lamentable condition in which they discovered him.
Who acts: pityless commander, commander, words · What happens: have, receive, stipulate, hold, agree, seize · To what, where: stipulated sum, consultation, remaining jewels, unhappy exile, same helpless condition, commander
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 (pityless commander, commander, words), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 commander | det |
| 5 | pityless | pityless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 commander | amod |
| 6 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sum | det |
| 9 | stipulated | stipulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sum | amod |
| 10 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 held | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 consultation | det |
| 16 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 crew | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crew | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consultation | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 agreed | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agreed | nsubj |
| 23 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 seize | mark |
| 25 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 agreed | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jewels | det |
| 27 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 jewels | amod |
| 28 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seize | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 leave | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 leave | cc |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 exile | det |
| 33 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 exile | amod |
| 34 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 condition | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 condition | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 condition | amod |
| 38 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 condition | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lamentable | cc |
| 40 | lamentable | lamentable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 helpless | conj |
| 41 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 discovered | obl |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 discovered | nsubj |
| 45 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 condition | acl:relcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 discovered | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | this pityless commander | the stipulated sum | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stipulate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hold | past | commander | a consultation | with commander's crew | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Theme | |||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | past | words = word | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | seize not said to happen | to-infinitive | words = word not said here | the remaining jewels | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | ||||
| 7 | remain | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | leave | infinitive | the unhappy exile | the same helpless condition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent exile=Theme in condition=Location | ||||
| 9 | discover | past | words = word | commander | the same helpless condition | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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