Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 3
“Look again,” said the angel, “and behold the very ship in which, short-sighted as thou art, thou wishedst the merchant might embark, dashed in pieces on a rock: dost thou not hear the cries of the sinking sailors?
Who acts: angel, thou, merchant, sinking sailors · What happens: look, say, sight, wish, embark, dash · To what, where: ship, pieces, cries · 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 (angel, thou, merchant, sinking sailors), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ship | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ship | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ship | cc |
| 12 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 ship | discourse |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 ship | advmod |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angel | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sighted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sighted | punct |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sighted | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 short | punct |
| 21 | sighted | sight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ship | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 art | mark |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 art | nsubj |
| 24 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wishedst | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 art | punct |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 wishedst | nsubj |
| 27 | wishedst | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sighted | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 merchant | det |
| 29 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 embark | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 embark | aux |
| 31 | embark | embark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wishedst | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dashed | punct |
| 33 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 embark | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 pieces | case |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 dashed | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 rock | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rock | det |
| 38 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pieces | nmod |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 dost | punct |
| 40 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 hear | nsubj |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 hear | advmod |
| 43 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 dost | ccomp |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cries | det |
| 45 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hear | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 sailors | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sailors | det |
| 48 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sailors | compound |
| 49 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 cries | nmod |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sight in a quote | participle | the ship | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | past | thou | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | embark in a quote | might | the merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | dash in a quote | participle | the merchant not said here | pieces on a rock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | the angel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not hear in a quote | infinitive | thou | the cries of the sinking sailors | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | cry in a quote | the sinking sailors | nom cry «communication 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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