Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 32
When he arrived at Magrebi, his first care was to enquire in what house, or in what convent, Abounadar lodged; he was so well known that every body told him his habitation.
Who acts: thing, first care, Abounadar, body · What happens: arrive, be, lodge, know, tell, care · To what, where: Magrebi, house, convent, thing, habitation · 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 (thing, first care, Abounadar, body), 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 | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Magrebi | case |
| 5 | Magrebi | Magrebi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enquire | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 care | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 care | amod |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enquire | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enquire | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 enquire | mark |
| 12 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arrived | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 house | nsubj |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enquire | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lodged | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 lodged | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 convent | case |
| 19 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 20 convent | det |
| 20 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lodged | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 convent | punct |
| 22 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lodged | nsubj |
| 23 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enquire | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 known | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 well | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 known | advmod |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 told | mark |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 body | det |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 36 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 told | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | thing | Magrebi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | thing's first care | house | enquire property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lodge | past | Abounadar | what convent | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in convent=Location | ||||
| 4 | know | past · passive | thing | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | every body | thing's habitation | thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient habitation=Topic | |||
| 6 | care | thing | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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