Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 36
He was in this embarrassment when a man approached him, and said to him, “Abdallah, thou art welcome; my master, Abounadar, has long expected thee.”
Who acts: Abdallah, man · What happens: be, approach, say, expect · To what, where: embarrassment, Abdallah · 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 (Abdallah, man), 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 | 5 embarrassment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embarrassment | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 embarrassment | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 embarrassment | det |
| 5 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 approached | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 approached | nsubj |
| 9 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embarrassment | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 approached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embarrassment | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 art | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 art | punct |
| 18 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 art | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 art | punct |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 art | nsubj |
| 21 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 art | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 master | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 master | nmod:poss |
| 25 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embarrassment | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Abounadar | punct |
| 27 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 master | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 embarrassment | punct |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 expected | aux |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 expected | advmod |
| 31 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 expected | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 expected | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abdallah | this embarrassment and my master | my master conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | approach | past | a man | Abdallah | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Abdallah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | expect in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this embarrassment and my master | thee obj; long property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme thou=Eventuality |
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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