Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 6
He did not however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way, bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Who acts: Obidah, flowers, diligence · What happens: do, not forget, travel, find, border, appear · To what, where: narrow way, same direction, pleasure, rewards, fatigues, diligence · 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 (Obidah, flowers, diligence), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 forget | advmod |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 forget | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 travelling | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 travelling | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travelling | aux |
| 10 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 forget | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bordered | punct |
| 18 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bordered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 appeared | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 direction | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 direction | amod |
| 28 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 31 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 road | amod |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 direction | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pleased | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pleased | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pleased | cop |
| 36 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | ccomp |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 found | mark |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 that | punct |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 experiment | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 experiment | det |
| 41 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 experiment | amod |
| 42 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 experiment | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 found | aux |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 means | csubj |
| 47 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 pleased | parataxis |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 unite | mark |
| 49 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 means | xcomp |
| 50 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 unite | obj |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 business | case |
| 52 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 pleasure | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 gain | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 gain | cc |
| 55 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 unite | conj |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 rewards | det |
| 57 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 gain | obj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 diligence | case |
| 59 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 rewards | nmod |
| 60 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 61 suffering | mark |
| 61 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 55 gain | advcl |
| 62 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 fatigues | nmod:poss |
| 63 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 suffering | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Obidah | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not forget | infinitive | Obidah not said here | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | past · progressive | Obidah | whither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Obidah not said here | a narrow way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | border | participle | a narrow way not said here | with flowers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | flowers | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | flowers not said here | the same direction | with the main road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient | |||
| 8 | is | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | find | past · perfect | Obidah | by this happy experiment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 11 | unite not said to happen | to-infinitive | pleasure | with business | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient with business=Co-Patient | ||||
| 12 | gain | infinitive | the rewards of diligence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | |||||
| 13 | suffer | gerund | diligence's fatigues | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fatigue=Stimulus | |||||
| 14 | reward | diligence | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 15 | fatigue | diligence | nom fatigue «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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