Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 7
The young man, after the death of his father-in-law, retired with his wife into a distant part of the country, where he purchased a fine estate, with a splendid dwelling; and there he lived with great credit and reputation.
Who acts: man, young man, father · What happens: retire, purchase, live, die · To what, where: young man, distant part, fine estate
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 (man, young man, father), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 death | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 death | det |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 law | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 in | punct |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 retired | punct |
| 16 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 retired | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 part | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 22 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 part | amod |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 retired | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 purchased | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 purchased | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 purchased | nsubj |
| 30 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 country | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 estate | det |
| 32 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 estate | amod |
| 33 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 purchased | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 dwelling | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 dwelling | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 dwelling | det |
| 37 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dwelling | amod |
| 38 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 purchased | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 lived | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 there | cc |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 lived | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 lived | nsubj |
| 43 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 credit | case |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 credit | amod |
| 46 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lived | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 reputation | cc |
| 48 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 credit | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | participle | the young man after the death of man's father in law not said here | a distant part of the country | with man's wife | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | purchase | past | man | a fine estate | with a splendid dwelling | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | past | the young man after the death of man's father in law | there | with great credit and reputation; man nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with credit=Location | |||
| 4 | die | man's father in law | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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