Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 2

Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return to his palace, and retired to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain: he there rolled himself on the dust, tore away the hairs of his hoary beard, and dashed the cup of consolation that Patience offered him to the ground.

Who acts: Bozaldab, son, Patience · What happens: refuse, not return, retire, neighbour, roll, dash · To what, where: son, dust, cup, ground, grief

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 (Bozaldab, son, Patience), 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	Bozaldab	Bozaldab	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 refused	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 distraction	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 distraction	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 distraction	det
5	distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bozaldab	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 distraction	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 despair	cc
9	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bozaldab	punct
11	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 return	mark
13	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 refused	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 palace	nmod:poss
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 retired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 retired	cc
19	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 refused	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 grotto	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grotto	det
22	gloomiest	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 grotto	amod
23	grotto	grotto	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 retired	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mountain	det
26	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 mountain	amod
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grotto	nmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 rolled	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rolled	nsubj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rolled	advmod
31	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 refused	parataxis
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 rolled	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 dust	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dust	det
35	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rolled	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tore	punct
37	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dust	conj
38	away	away	ADV	_	31 rolled	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hairs	det
40	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rolled	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 beard	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 beard	nmod:poss
43	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 beard	amod
44	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hairs	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dashed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dashed	cc
47	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rolled	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cup	det
49	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dashed	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 consolation	case
51	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 cup	nmod
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 offered	mark
53	Patience	Patience	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 offered	nsubj
54	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dashed	advcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 offered	iobj
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 ground	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 ground	det
58	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 offered	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Bozaldab					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not return	to-infinitive	Bozaldab not said here				to son's palace result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
3	retire	participle	Bozaldab not said here				to the gloomiest grotto in the neighbouring mountain	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
5	roll	past	son	son		the dust and tore; there	the hairs of son's hoary beard obj; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme hair=Result
6	dash	past	son not said here	the cup of consolation				vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
7	offer	past	Patience		son		to the ground goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Goal
8	distract			grief and despair				nom distraction «cognition 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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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 2