Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 26

When the repast was over, “Tell me,” said the hermit, “by what chance thou hast been brought hither; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.”

Who acts: repast, hermit · What happens: be, tell, say, bring, not see · To what, where: hermit, chance, twenty years, man, inhabitant · 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 (repast, hermit), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 repast	det
3	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
8	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hermit	det
14	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	ccomp
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	nsubj:pass
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 brought	nsubj:pass
21	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 brought	aux:pass
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 what	acl:relcl
24	hither	hither	ADV	_	23 brought	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 years	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 years	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 years	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 years	cop
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 twenty	advmod
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 inhabitant	det
33	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 years	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wilderness	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wilderness	det
36	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inhabitant	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saw	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 saw	obl
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 saw	nsubj
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 saw	advmod
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 inhabitant	acl:relcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 saw	obj
45	before	before	ADV	_	44 man	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 man	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	44 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the repast					over property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the hermit = hermit				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the hermit					what ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		chance				thou nsubj:pass; hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present · perfect	the hermit = hermit	twenty years			now	a inhabitant of the wilderness appos	tree rules
6	not see in a quote	past	the hermit = hermit	a man		a inhabitant of the wilderness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 26

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 26