Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 11

This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might sooth and divert him.

Who acts: uneasiness, sensation · What happens: incline, lay, hold on, give, sooth, divert · To what, where: Obidah, new object, way, sensation

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 (uneasiness, sensation), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 uneasiness	det
2	uneasiness	uneasiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inclined	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mind	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mind	nmod:poss
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uneasiness	nmod
6	inclined	incline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inclined	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lay	mark
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inclined	advcl
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lay	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 hold	compound:prt
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 object	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 object	amod
14	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hold	conj
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 sensation	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sensation	det
21	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sooth	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sooth	aux
24	sooth	sooth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sensation	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 divert	cc
26	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sooth	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 divert	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	incline	past	this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind	Obidah		vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	lay	to-infinitive	this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind not said here			tree rules
3	hold on	infinitive	this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind not said here	every new object		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme
4	give	infinitive	this uneasiness of uneasiness's mind not said here	way	every sensation	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to sensation=Recipient
5	sooth	might	every sensation			tree rules
6	divert	infinitive	every sensation not said here	Obidah		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	mind		uneasiness			nom mind «cognition 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 11