Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 12
But forgetting what had been expressly recommended to him, whilst he was filling his vest and bosom with gold and jewels, which this subterraneous vault inclosed in prodigious heaps, the opening by which he entered closed of itself.
Who acts: Abdallah, jewels, opening · What happens: forget, recommend, fill, vault, inclose, close · To what, where: Abdallah, vest, subterraneous vault, prodigious heaps · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Abdallah, jewels, opening), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 forgetting | cc |
| 2 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 recommended | obj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recommended | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 recommended | aux:pass |
| 6 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 7 recommended | advmod |
| 7 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 forgetting | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recommended | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filling | punct |
| 11 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 14 filling | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filling | aux |
| 14 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 forgetting | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 vest | nmod:poss |
| 16 | vest | vest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bosom | cc |
| 18 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vest | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filling | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jewels | cc |
| 22 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gold | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vault | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 vault | nsubj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 vault | det |
| 26 | subterraneous | subterraneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vault | amod |
| 27 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jewels | nmod |
| 28 | inclosed | inclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 vault | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 heaps | case |
| 30 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heaps | amod |
| 31 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 inclosed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 opening | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 opening | det |
| 34 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vault | appos |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 closed | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 closed | nsubj |
| 38 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 closed | aux:pass |
| 39 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 opening | acl:relcl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 itself | case |
| 41 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 closed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgetting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | recommend | past · perfect · passive | Abdallah | what obj; expressly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: what=Topic to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · progressive | Abdallah | Abdallah's vest and bosom | with gold and jewels | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vest=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 4 | vault | jewels | the opening appos | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | inclose | participle | this subterraneous vault not said here | prodigious heaps | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | close | past · passive | the opening | Abdallah | of vault | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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