Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 13
In these amusements the hours passed away unaccounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel.
Who acts: hours, deviations, Obidah · What happens: pass away, perplex, not know, travel, deviate · To what, where: amusements, memory
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 (hours, deviations, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 amusements | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 amusements | det |
| 3 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hours | det |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 8 | unaccounted | unaccounted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 passed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 perplexed | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 deviations | nmod:poss |
| 11 | deviations | deviation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 perplexed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 perplexed | aux |
| 13 | perplexed | perplex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 memory | nmod:poss |
| 15 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perplexed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 knew | advmod |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 what | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 travel | mark |
| 25 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 point | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the hours | this amusements | away, unaccounted property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | perplex | past · perfect | Obidah's deviations | Obidah's memory | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not know | past | Obidah | what point ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | Obidah not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deviate | Obidah | nom deviation «event intransitive»: 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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