Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 3
The father was no sooner dead than the elder began to shew his ill-will to his brother.
Who acts: father, elder · What happens: be, begin, shew
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 (father, elder), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 sooner | advmod |
| 5 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 dead | advmod |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 began | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elder | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shew | mark |
| 12 | shew | shew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 will | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 will | advcl |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 shew | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 will | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the father | dead, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the elder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shew | to-infinitive | the elder not said here | tree rules |
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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