Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 18
He now resolved to do what remained yet in his power, to tread back the ground which he had passed, and try to find some issue where the wood might open into the plain.
Who acts: Obidah, wood · What happens: resolve, do, remain, tread back, pass, try · To what, where: power, ground, issue, plain
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, wood), 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 | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | ccomp |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 remained | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 power | nmod:poss |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tread | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tread | mark |
| 14 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 resolved | parataxis |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 tread | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tread | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 passed | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | aux |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ground | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 try | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 try | cc |
| 24 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 tread | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 try | xcomp |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 issue | det |
| 28 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 open | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 open | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 open | aux |
| 33 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 issue | acl:relcl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 plain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 plain | det |
| 36 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 open | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Obidah | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Obidah not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | Obidah's power | yet | what nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in power=Location | |||
| 4 | tread back | to-infinitive | the ground | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ground=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the ground | Obidah nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | some issue | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Topic | |||||
| 8 | open | might | the wood | the plain | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into plain=Recipient |
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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