Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 19
Whilst they contemplated upon these treasures with avidity; whilst they were dazzled with the lustre of them, and formed a thousand projects in consequence of them, they all vanished away before their eyes.
Who acts: desires · What happens: contemplate, dazzle, form, vanish away · To what, where: desires, thousand projects, consequence
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 (desires), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 3 contemplated | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 contemplated | nsubj |
| 3 | contemplated | contemplate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 vanished | advcl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 treasures | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 treasures | det |
| 6 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contemplated | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 avidity | case |
| 8 | avidity | avidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treasures | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dazzled | punct |
| 10 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 13 dazzled | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dazzled | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 13 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 contemplated | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lustre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lustre | det |
| 16 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dazzled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lustre | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 formed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 formed | cc |
| 21 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contemplated | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 projects | nummod |
| 24 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 formed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 consequence | case |
| 26 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 projects | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 consequence | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 contemplated | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 vanished | nsubj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 vanished | advmod |
| 32 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 vanished | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 vanished | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contemplate | past | desires = desire | upon this treasures with avidity | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dazzle | past · passive | desires = desire | with the lustre of treasures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | form | past | desires = desire not said here | thousand projects | consequence of desires | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location project=Theme | |||
| 4 | vanish away | past | desires = desire | before desires's eyes | all, away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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