Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 5
He saw, on his right hand, a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation; he entered it, and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant.
Who acts: Obidah, grove, hand · What happens: see, seem, wave, enter, find, shade · To what, where: right hand, shades, hand, coolness, invitation
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, grove, hand), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grove | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grove | det |
| 10 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grove | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wave | mark |
| 14 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shades | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wave | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 sign | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sign | det |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 invitation | case |
| 21 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sign | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 entered | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 entered | nsubj |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 entered | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 entered | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coolness | det |
| 30 | coolness | coolness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 verdure | cc |
| 32 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coolness | conj |
| 33 | irresistibly | irresistibly | ADV | _ | 34 pleasant | advmod |
| 34 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coolness | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Obidah | Obidah's right hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a grove | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | wave | to-infinitive | a grove not said here | hand's shades | as a sign of invitation | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Patient | |||
| 4 | enter | past | Obidah | hand | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Obidah not said here | the coolness and verdure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coolness=Topic | ||||
| 6 | shade | hand | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sign | invitation | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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