Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 17
The palace so lately shining with oriental pomp, changed suddenly into the cell of a dungeon, where his son lay stretched out on the cold pavement, gagged and bound, with his eyes put out.
Who acts: palace, eyes · What happens: shine, change, stretch out, gag, bind, put out · To what, where: cell
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 (palace, eyes), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 shining | advmod |
| 4 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 5 shining | advmod |
| 5 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 palace | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 pomp | case |
| 7 | oriental | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pomp | amod |
| 8 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shining | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 palace | punct |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 changed | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cell | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cell | det |
| 14 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stretched | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dungeon | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dungeon | det |
| 17 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cell | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stretched | aux:pass |
| 23 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 changed | parataxis |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 stretched | compound:prt |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 pavement | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pavement | det |
| 27 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pavement | amod |
| 28 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stretched | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gagged | punct |
| 30 | gagged | gag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stretched | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bound | cc |
| 32 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 gagged | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 put | punct |
| 34 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 37 put | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 put | nsubj |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gagged | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 put | compound:prt |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | the palace not said here | with oriental pomp; lately property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pomp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the palace | suddenly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | past · passive | the cell of a dungeon | on the cold pavement | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: into cell=Location | ||||
| 4 | gag | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bind | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | put out | past | Bozaldab's eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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