Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 17
Abdallah told her frankly what had happened to him, and the danger he had run to satisfy his unreasonable desires; he afterwards shewed her the riches with which he was loaded.
Who acts: Abdallah · What happens: tell, happen, run, satisfy, shew, load · To what, where: fortune, Abdallah, danger, unreasonable desires · 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), 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 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | frankly | frankly | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 danger | det |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 run | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happened | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 satisfy | mark |
| 18 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 run | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 desires | nmod:poss |
| 20 | unreasonable | unreasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 desires | amod |
| 21 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 satisfy | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 shewed | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shewed | nsubj |
| 24 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 25 shewed | advmod |
| 25 | shewed | shew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shewed | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 riches | det |
| 28 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shewed | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 shewed | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 loaded | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 loaded | aux:pass |
| 33 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 shewed | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Abdallah | fortune | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | Abdallah | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past · perfect · passive | the danger | Abdallah nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | satisfy | to-infinitive | Abdallah's unreasonable desires | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus desire=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | shew | past | Abdallah | fortune | the riches obj; which obj; afterwards property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | load | past · passive | Abdallah | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 7 | desire | Abdallah | nom desire «feeling 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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