Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 12
He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade, and pleased himself with tracing the course of a gentle river that rolled among the trees, and watered a large region with innumerable circumvolutions.
Who acts: Obidah, gentle river · What happens: listen, mount, turn, trace, roll, water · To what, where: hill, cascade, course, trees, large region
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, gentle river), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 echo | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 echo | det |
| 5 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mounted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mounted | nsubj |
| 8 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mounted | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 prospect | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prospect | det |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prospect | amod |
| 14 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mounted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 18 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 cascade | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 cascade | det |
| 21 | cascade | cascade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pleased | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pleased | cc |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turned | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 tracing | mark |
| 27 | tracing | trace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 turned | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 course | det |
| 29 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tracing | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 river | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 32 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 river | amod |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 course | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 rolled | nsubj |
| 35 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 river | acl:relcl |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 38 trees | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 trees | det |
| 38 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rolled | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 watered | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 watered | cc |
| 41 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 region | det |
| 43 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 region | amod |
| 44 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 watered | obj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 circumvolutions | case |
| 46 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 circumvolutions | amod |
| 47 | circumvolutions | circumvolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 watered | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Obidah | to every echo | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | Obidah | every hill | for a fresh prospect | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Obidah | every cascade | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to cascade=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | trace | gerund | Obidah not said here | the course of a gentle river | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roll | past | a gentle river | the trees | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | water | past | Obidah not said here | a large region | with innumerable circumvolutions | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent region=Destination with circumvolution=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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