Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 15
Not perceiving the Dervise, nor remembering any of the places through which he had passed, he went on as fortune had directed him, and was extremely astonished to find himself opposite to his mother’s house, which he imagined he was at a great distance from him.
Who acts: Dervise, house · What happens: not perceive, remember, pass, go on, direct, be · To what, where: Dervise, any, places, fortune
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, house), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 perceiving | advmod |
| 2 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dervise | det |
| 4 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 perceiving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembering | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 remembering | cc |
| 7 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 perceiving | conj |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 remembering | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 places | det |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 any | nmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 passed | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passed | aux |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 places | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceiving | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 directed | mark |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 directed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 directed | aux |
| 24 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 directed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astonished | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 astonished | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 astonished | cop |
| 29 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 30 astonished | advmod |
| 30 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 went | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 astonished | xcomp |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 find | obj |
| 34 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 find | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 house | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 mother | case |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opposite | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 imagined | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 imagined | nsubj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 imagined | nsubj |
| 43 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 house | acl:relcl |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 distance | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 distance | cop |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 distance | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 distance | det |
| 48 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 distance | amod |
| 49 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 imagined | ccomp |
| 50 | from | from | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 distance | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not perceive | gerund | Dervise not said here | the Dervise | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dervise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remember | gerund | Dervise not said here | any of the places | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | Dervise | the places | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | Dervise | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | direct | past · perfect · passive | fortune | Dervise obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Dervise not said here | astonished, extremely property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | Dervise not said here | Dervise | opposite property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 8 | imagine | past | Dervise's mother's house | Dervise nsubj | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | is | past | Dervise | at a great distance; from Abdallah | tree rules |
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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