Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 4

Thus he went on till the sun approached his meridian, and the increasing heat preyed upon his strength; he then looked round about him for some more commodious path.

Who acts: Obidah, sun, increasing heat · What happens: go on, approach, prey, look round · To what, where: meridian

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, sun, increasing heat), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 approached	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approached	nsubj
8	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 meridian	nmod:poss
10	meridian	meridian	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approached	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 preyed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 preyed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heat	det
14	increasing	increasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heat	amod
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preyed	nsubj
16	preyed	prey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 strength	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 strength	nmod:poss
19	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preyed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 looked	advmod
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 looked	advmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 path	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 path	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 commodious	advmod
30	commodious	commodious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 path	amod
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Obidah			thus property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	approach	past	the sun	Obidah's meridian			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meridian=Theme
3	prey	past	the increasing heat			upon Obidah's strength	tree rules
4	look round	past	Obidah		then	about heat; for some commodious path; round property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Location for path=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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 4