Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 33
He repaired thither directly, and found fifty porters who kept the gate of his house, having each a staff with a head of gold in their hands: the court of this palace was filled with slaves and domestics; in fine, the residence of a prince could not expose to view greater magnificence.
Who acts: thing, fifty porters, prince · What happens: repair, find, keep, have, fill, not expose · To what, where: fifty porters, gate, hands, staff, court, residence
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, fifty porters, prince), 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 repaired | nsubj |
| 2 | repaired | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 repaired | advmod |
| 4 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 2 repaired | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 repaired | conj |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 porters | nummod |
| 9 | porters | porter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 porters | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gate | det |
| 13 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gate | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 having | punct |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kept | advcl |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 staff | det |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 staff | det |
| 21 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 having | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 having | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 head | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 court | det |
| 32 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 filled | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 court | nmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 filled | aux:pass |
| 37 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 porters | acl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 slaves | case |
| 39 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 filled | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 domestics | cc |
| 41 | domestics | domestic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 slaves | conj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 fine | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 fine | case |
| 44 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 repaired | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 residence | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 residence | det |
| 47 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fine | parataxis |
| 48 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 53 expose | mark |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 prince | det |
| 50 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 expose | nsubj |
| 51 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 expose | aux |
| 52 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 expose | advmod |
| 53 | expose | expose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 residence | acl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 view | mark |
| 55 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 expose | xcomp |
| 56 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 57 magnificence | amod |
| 57 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 view | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repair | past | thing | directly, thither property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | thing not said here | fifty porters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porter=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | fifty porters | the gate of thing's house | gold's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gate=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | fifty porters not said here | each staff | with a head of gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient | |||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | the court of this palace | with slaves and domestics | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with slave=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | not expose | could | a prince | the residence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | view | to-infinitive | a prince not said here | greater magnificence | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magnificence=Stimulus |
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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