Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 4
He desired him to leave his house, and, without giving him any thing for his support, turned him loose into the wide world.
Who acts: elder · What happens: desire, leave, give, turn, support · To what, where: gentleman, house, thing, elder, wide world
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 desired | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desired | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 giving | mark |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 turned | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 giving | iobj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 support | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 support | nmod:poss |
| 18 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 desired | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | obj |
| 22 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | elder | gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | elder not said here | elder's house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | any thing | elder | for elder's support | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Theme for support=Asset | |||
| 4 | turn | past | elder not said here | elder | the wide world | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into world=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | support | elder | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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