Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 10
About the same time some persons failing, who had much of their money in his hands, he was reduced to great want.
Who acts: persons · What happens: fail, reduce · To what, where: persons, great want
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (persons), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reduced | obl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 persons | det |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | failing | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 persons | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reduced | aux |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 money | nmod:poss |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 much | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reduced | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reduced | aux:pass |
| 21 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 want | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 want | amod |
| 24 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reduced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | gerund | some persons not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reduce | past · passive | some persons | time | to great want goal; death nsubj | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to want=Goal |
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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