Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 3

He suffered not his minstrels to approach his presence; but listened to the melancholy birds of midnight, that flit through the solitary vaults and echoing chambers of the Pyramids.

Who acts: son · What happens: not suffer, approach, listen, echo · To what, where: minstrels, presence, flit, solitary vaults

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 (son), 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	2 suffered	nsubj
2	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 suffered	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 minstrels	nmod:poss
5	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suffered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 approach	mark
7	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suffered	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 presence	nmod:poss
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 approach	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 listened	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 listened	cc
12	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 suffered	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 birds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
15	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birds	compound
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 listened	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 midnight	case
18	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birds	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flit	punct
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 flit	det
21	flit	flit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 listened	obl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 vaults	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vaults	det
24	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vaults	amod
25	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 listened	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chambers	cc
27	echoing	echo	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 chambers	amod
28	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 vaults	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Pyramids	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Pyramids	det
31	Pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 chambers	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not suffer	past	son	son's minstrels			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer minstrel=Stimulus
2	approach	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's presence			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme
3	listen	past	son not said here	that flit	the solitary vaults and echoing chambers of the Pyramids	to the melancholy birds of midnight	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme
4	echo	gerund					vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 3