Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 11
“Gracious Alla!—it is my son,” cried the Calif—“O let me hold him to my heart!”
Who acts: Gracious Alla, son · What happens: be, cry, let, hold · To what, where: son, Calif · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gracious Alla, son), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 2 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Alla | amod |
| 3 | Alla | Alla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Alla | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 son | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 son | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Calif | det |
| 14 | Calif | Calif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 let | discourse |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hold | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Gracious Alla | my son | palace nsubj; my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | my son | the Calif | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | my son = son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | infinitive | my son = son not said here | Calif | to my heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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