Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 14
He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past.
Who acts: Obidah, time · What happens: stand, go, be
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, time), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pensive | pensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 confused | cc |
| 5 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pensive | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pensive | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | xcomp |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 go | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conscious | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 conscious | cc |
| 18 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 past | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 past | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 loitering | case |
| 23 | loitering | loitering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 past | cop |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 past | advmod |
| 26 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 conscious | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Obidah | pensive property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Obidah not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | should | Obidah | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the time of loitering | now | past property | tree rules |
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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