Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 26

He repeated every day the same ceremony, which had always the same success; but he could never make it succeed more than once in twenty-four hours.

Who acts: Abdallah, same ceremony, ceremony · What happens: repeat, success, not make, not succeed · To what, where: same ceremony, ceremony, more

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, same ceremony, ceremony), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ceremony	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ceremony	amod
7	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 success	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 success	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 success	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 success	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 success	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 success	amod
14	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ceremony	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 make	advmod
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 repeated	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	22 succeed	obj
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 more	fixed
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 succeed	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 hours	case
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 four	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 twenty	punct
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hours	nummod
30	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 succeed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Abdallah	the same ceremony	day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Eventuality
2	success	past	the same ceremony			always property	tree rules
3	not make	could	Abdallah	ceremony			tree rules
4	not succeed	infinitive	ceremony not said here	more	hour	once property	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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 26