Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 35
Certainly, thought he, I either explained myself wrong, or those to whom I addressed myself designed to make a jest of me, because I was a stranger: this is not the habitation of a Dervise, it is that of a king.
Who acts: I, this, jest, me · What happens: think, explain, address, design, make, be · To what, where: Abdallah, myself, jest, stranger, 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 (I, this, jest, me), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Certainly | punct |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 explained | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 explained | nsubj |
| 7 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 explained | advmod |
| 8 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 explained | obj |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 explained | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whom | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 whom | cc |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 whom | det |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 addressed | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 addressed | nsubj |
| 17 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 addressed | obj |
| 19 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 addressed | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 designed | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 jest | det |
| 23 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 jest | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stranger | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 stranger | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 stranger | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stranger | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 stranger | det |
| 31 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 addressed | conj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 habitation | punct |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 habitation | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 habitation | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 habitation | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 habitation | det |
| 37 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stranger | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Dervise | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 Dervise | det |
| 40 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 habitation | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 king | punct |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 king | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 king | cop |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 king | mark |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 king | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 king | det |
| 47 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 habitation | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Abdallah | certainly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | I | myself | either, wrong property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | |||
| 3 | address | past | I | myself | whom obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | design | participle | I not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | a jest of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jest=Product | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | I | a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not is a | present | this | the habitation and a king | of a Dervise | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is | present | jest | of a king | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | jest | me | nom jest «communication intransitive»: of=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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