Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 12
In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself from starving than to wander up and down the country, imploring the assistance of well-disposed persons.
Who acts: death · What happens: have, keep, starve, wander up, implore, dispose · To what, where: other resource, forlorn condition, death, assistance, disposed persons
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 (death), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 condition | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 condition | det |
| 3 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 condition | amod |
| 4 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 condition | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 resource | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 resource | amod |
| 10 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 starving | mark |
| 15 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keep | advcl |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 wander | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wander | mark |
| 18 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 starving | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 wander | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 country | cc |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wander | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 imploring | punct |
| 25 | imploring | implore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 starving | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 assistance | det |
| 27 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 imploring | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 persons | case |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 disposed | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 well | punct |
| 31 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 persons | amod |
| 32 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 assistance | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | death | no other resource | this forlorn condition | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | death not said here | death | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | death not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wander up | to-infinitive | death not said here | the country conj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | implore | gerund | death not said here | the assistance of disposed persons | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | dispose | participle | well property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | assist | disposed persons | nom assistance «act 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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