Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 2
He was fresh and vigourous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the vallies, and saw the hills gradually rising before him.
Who acts: Obidah, desire, hills · What happens: be, incite, walk, see, rise · To what, where: Obidah, vallies, hills
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, desire, hills), 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 fresh | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fresh | cop |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 vigourous | cc |
| 5 | vigourous | vigourous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fresh | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vigourous | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 animated | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 animated | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 animated | cop |
| 11 | animated | animated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fresh | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hope | case |
| 13 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 animated | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 incited | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 incited | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 incited | aux:pass |
| 17 | incited | incite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fresh | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 desire | case |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 incited | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fresh | parataxis |
| 23 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 24 forward | advmod |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 22 walked | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 vallies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 vallies | det |
| 27 | vallies | vally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walked | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 walked | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hills | det |
| 32 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 34 rising | advmod |
| 34 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 saw | xcomp |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rising | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Obidah | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Obidah not said here | with rest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Obidah | with hope; animated property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | incite | past · passive | desire | Obidah | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | walk | past | Obidah | the vallies | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over vally=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | see | past | Obidah not said here | the hills | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rise | gerund | the hills not said here | before Obidah | gradually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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