Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 1
Obidah, the son of Abensina, left the caravansera early in the morning, and pursued his journey through the plains of Indostan.
Who acts: Obidah · What happens: leave, pursue, journey · To what, where: caravansera, journey, plains
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obidah), 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 | Obidah | Obidah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Obidah | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Abensina | case |
| 6 | Abensina | Abensina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obidah | punct |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 caravansera | det |
| 10 | caravansera | caravansera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 left | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pursued | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pursued | cc |
| 17 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pursued | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 plains | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plains | det |
| 22 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pursued | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Indostan | case |
| 24 | Indostan | Indostan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 plains | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Obidah | the caravansera | morning | early property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravansera=Theme | ||
| 2 | pursue | past | Obidah not said here | Obidah's journey | the plains of Indostan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent journey=Theme through plain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | journey | Obidah | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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