Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 22

Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction.

Who acts: Work, moment · What happens: distress, wander, know, go, be, draw · To what, where: wild, moment · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Work, moment), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 forlorn	advmod
2	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 distressed	cc
4	distressed	distress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forlorn	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wandered	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wandered	nsubj
7	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forlorn	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 wild	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wild	det
10	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knowing	punct
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wandered	advcl
14	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	17 going	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 knowing	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moment	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 moment	cc
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 moment	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 moment	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 moment	cop
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forlorn	parataxis
25	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 moment	acl
26	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 drawing	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 safety	case
28	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nearer	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 destruction	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 destruction	case
31	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 safety	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forlorn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	distress	past					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	wander	past	Work		the wild		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wild=Trajectory
3	know	gerund	Work not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past · progressive	Work			whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	Work	every moment			tree rules
6	draw	gerund	every moment not said here			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/21/22/

🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 22