Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 15
While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, the sky was overspread with clouds, the day vanished from before him, and a sudden tempest gathered round his head.
Who acts: sky, day, sudden tempest · What happens: torture, be, vanish, gather · To what, where: Obidah, clouds
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 (sky, day, sudden tempest), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 tortured | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tortured | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tortured | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 tortured | advmod |
| 5 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 uncertainty | case |
| 7 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tortured | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overspread | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overspread | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overspread | cop |
| 12 | overspread | overspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tortured | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 clouds | case |
| 14 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 overspread | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vanished | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vanished | nsubj |
| 18 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 vanished | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gathered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gathered | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tempest | det |
| 25 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tempest | amod |
| 26 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gathered | nsubj |
| 27 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tortured | conj |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gathered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture | past · passive | Obidah | with uncertainty; thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sky | with clouds; overspread property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the day | clouds not said here | before Obidah | tree rules | |||
| 4 | gather | participle | a sudden tempest | round Obidah's head | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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