Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 38
Abdallah, struck with the riches which he beheld on all sides, would have prostrated himself at his feet, but Abounadar prevented him, and interrupted him when he would have made a merit of the candlestick, which he presented to him.
Who acts: riches, Abounadar, Abdallah, candlestick · What happens: strike, behold, prostrate, prevent, interrupt, make · To what, where: Abdallah, sides, feet, merit
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 (riches, Abounadar, Abdallah, candlestick), 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 | 16 prostrated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Abdallah | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 riches | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 riches | det |
| 6 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 riches | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sides | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sides | det |
| 12 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beheld | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Abdallah | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 prostrated | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prostrated | aux |
| 16 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 prostrated | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 feet | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prostrated | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prevented | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 prevented | cc |
| 23 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 prevented | nsubj |
| 24 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prostrated | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prevented | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 interrupted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 interrupted | cc |
| 28 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prevented | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 interrupted | obj |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 made | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 made | aux |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 interrupted | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 merit | det |
| 36 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 candlestick | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 candlestick | det |
| 39 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 merit | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 presented | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 presented | nsubj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 presented | nsubj |
| 43 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 candlestick | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 presented | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | Abdallah not said here | with the riches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rich=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | the riches | all sides | Abdallah nsubj | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | prostrate | would · perfect · passive | Abdallah | Abdallah's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prevent | past | Abounadar | Abdallah | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | interrupt | past | Abounadar not said here | Abdallah | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | would · perfect | Abdallah | a merit of the candlestick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Product | ||||
| 7 | present | past | the candlestick | Abdallah | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/22/38/