Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 34
Abdallah, struck with astonishment and admiration, feared to proceed.
Who acts: Abdallah · What happens: strike, fear, proceed · To what, where: Abdallah
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), 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 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feared | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Abdallah | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 admiration | cc |
| 7 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Abdallah | punct |
| 9 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 proceed | mark |
| 11 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 feared | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | Abdallah not said here | with astonishment and admiration | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with astonishment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Abdallah | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | proceed | to-infinitive | Abdallah not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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