Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 24
He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission.
Who acts: Work, breath · What happens: advance, find, proceed, call, obtain · To what, where: light, cottage, admission · 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, breath), 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 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advanced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finding | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 finding | cc |
| 8 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 advanced | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 proceeded | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proceeded | nsubj |
| 11 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finding | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceeded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hermit | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hermit | det |
| 17 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cottage | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | nsubj |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 advanced | conj |
| 21 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 20 called | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obtained | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 obtained | cc |
| 27 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 advanced | conj |
| 28 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obtained | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | Work | the light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards light=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | Work not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | proceed | past | breath | the cottage of a hermit | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call | past | Work | at the door; humbly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at door=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | obtain | past | Work not said here | admission | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset admission=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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