Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 1
A Dervise, venerable by his age, fell ill in the house of a woman who had been long a widow, and lived in extreme poverty in the suburbs of Balsora.
Who acts: Dervise, woman · What happens: fall, be, live · To what, where: house, widow, extreme poverty
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dervise, woman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Dervise | det |
| 2 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 venerable | punct |
| 4 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dervise | conj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 age | nmod:poss |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 venerable | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dervise | punct |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fell | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 widow | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 widow | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 widow | cop |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 widow | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 widow | det |
| 22 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lived | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lived | cc |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 poverty | case |
| 27 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 poverty | amod |
| 28 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lived | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 suburbs | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 suburbs | det |
| 31 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lived | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Balsora | case |
| 33 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 suburbs | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a Dervise | the house of a woman | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | a woman | a widow | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | a Dervise not said here | extreme poverty | in the suburbs of Balsora | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=Location |
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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