Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 10
Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Who acts: Obidah · What happens: have, calm, renew, suspect, not gain · To what, where: solicitude, pace, ground
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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 renewed | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 calmed | advmod |
| 3 | calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 solicitude | nmod:poss |
| 5 | solicitude | solicitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calmed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 renewed | nsubj |
| 8 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 renewed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suspected | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 suspected | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 suspected | nsubj |
| 14 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 renewed | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 gaining | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gaining | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gaining | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 gaining | advmod |
| 19 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 suspected | advcl |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gaining | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Obidah not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | calm | participle | Obidah not said here | Obidah's solicitude | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus solicitude=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | renew | past | Obidah | Obidah's pace | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | ||||
| 4 | suspect | past | Obidah | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not gain | past · progressive | Obidah | ground | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=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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