Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 17
While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Who acts: Obidah, air, clap · What happens: reflect, grow, break, clap, meditate · To what, where: meditation, thunder
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, air, clap), 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 reflecting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reflecting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reflecting | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 reflecting | advmod |
| 5 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reflecting | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broke | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 clap | det |
| 14 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thunder | case |
| 16 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clap | nmod |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 meditation | nmod:poss |
| 19 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past · progressive | Obidah | thus property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the air | black property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | a clap of thunder | Obidah's meditation | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meditation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | clap | thunder | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | meditate | Obidah | nom meditation «cognition 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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