Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 23
Immediately they saw a Dervise appear, who turned round for an hour, and disappeared, after having thrown them an asper.
Who acts: desires, Dervise · What happens: see, appear, turn round, disappear, throw · To what, where: 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 (desires, Dervise), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Dervise | det |
| 5 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | ccomp |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 disappeared | cc |
| 16 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thrown | punct |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 thrown | mark |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 thrown | aux |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 disappeared | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thrown | obj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 asper | det |
| 23 | asper | asper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | desires = desire | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | a Dervise | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | turn round | past | hour | who nsubj; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past | desires = desire not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | throw | gerund · perfect | desires = desire | a asper obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination asper=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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