Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 9
“Look from hence,” said the awful conductor; “I am Caloc, the Angel of Peace; Look from hence into the valley.”
Who acts: you, awful conductor, thick flashes · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: Caloc, valley · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, awful conductor, thick flashes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 hence | case |
| 4 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 2 Look | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conductor | det |
| 9 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 conductor | amod |
| 10 | conductor | conductor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Caloc | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Caloc | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Caloc | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Caloc | cop |
| 15 | Caloc | Caloc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Angel | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Angel | det |
| 18 | Angel | Angel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Caloc | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Peace | case |
| 20 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Angel | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Look | punct |
| 22 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 hence | case |
| 24 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 22 Look | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 valley | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 valley | det |
| 27 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Look | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hence=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the awful conductor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | thick flashes of lightning = flash | Caloc and the Angel of Peace | the Angel of Peace conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the valley | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hence=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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