Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 24
He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with great comfort and happiness till death.
Who acts: other, excuses · What happens: accept, live together · To what, where: proposal
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 (other, excuses), 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 | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 3 accepted | advmod |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 proposal | det |
| 5 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 comfort | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comfort | amod |
| 13 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happiness | cc |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comfort | conj |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happiness | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | other | the proposal | readily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 2 | live together | past | excuses = excuse | with great comfort and happiness till death; together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with comfort=Location |
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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