Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 22
When the night was come, without reflecting upon it, he placed the light in the candlestick.
Who acts: rest · What happens: come, reflect, place · To what, where: night, light, candlestick
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 (rest), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflecting | punct |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 reflecting | mark |
| 8 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 come | advcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reflecting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | nsubj |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 candlestick | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 candlestick | det |
| 18 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | the night | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reflect | gerund | upon candlestick | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | place | past | rest | the light | the candlestick | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme in candlestick=Destination |
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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