Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 25
The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude.
Who acts: Obidah · What happens: collect, feed · To what, where: old man set
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nmod |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 provisions | amod |
| 8 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 collected | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 collected | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 collected | aux |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 collected | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fed | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fed | obl |
| 18 | Obidah | Obidah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | nsubj |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 collected | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eagerness | case |
| 21 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gratitude | cc |
| 23 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eagerness | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · perfect · passive | the old man set before Work | for Work; such provisions nsubj:pass | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | past | Obidah | with eagerness and gratitude; which obl | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on which=Patient |
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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