Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 19
He prostrated himself on the ground, and commended his life to the Lord of Nature.
Who acts: Obidah · What happens: prostrate, commend · To what, where: Obidah, ground, life
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), 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 prostrated | nsubj |
| 2 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 prostrated | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prostrated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 commended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commended | cc |
| 9 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prostrated | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commended | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Lord | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lord | det |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commended | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Nature | case |
| 16 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lord | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | Obidah | Obidah | the ground | tree rules | |||
| 2 | commend | past | Obidah not said here | Obidah's life | to the Lord of Nature | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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