Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 8

At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with waterfalls.

Who acts: last green path, wind, path · What happens: begin, decline, cool, murmur, tend · To what, where: wind, first tendency, hills

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 (last green path, wind, path), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 path	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 path	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 path	amod
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 decline	mark
8	decline	decline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 tendency	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tendency	nmod:poss
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tendency	amod
12	tendency	tendency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 decline	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wind	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wind	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wind	mark
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
17	among	among	ADP	_	18 hills	case
18	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wind	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thickets	cc
20	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hills	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cooled	punct
22	cooled	cool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hills	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 fountains	case
24	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cooled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 murmuring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 murmuring	cc
27	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wind	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 waterfalls	case
29	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 murmuring	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the last green path	wind among hills and thickets			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	decline	to-infinitive	the last green path not said here		path's first tendency		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cool	participle		hills and thickets not said here		with fountains	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fountain=Instrument
4	murmur speech: other	gerund	wind among hills and thickets not said here			with waterfalls	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with waterfall=Theme
5	tend		path				nom tendency «cognition intransitive»: 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 8