Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 13
“And why,” returned Bozaldab, “was he not permitted to continue?
What happens: return, not permit, continue · To what, where: Bozaldab
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: 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 | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 why | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 returned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Bozaldab | Bozaldab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 permitted | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 permitted | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 permitted | aux:pass |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 permitted | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 permitted | advmod |
| 13 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 returned | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 continue | mark |
| 15 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 permitted | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Bozaldab | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bozaldab=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not permit in a quote | past · passive | Bozaldab | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | continue not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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