Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 4
The good woman received this proposal with joy; and the Dervise departed with the young man, advertising her, that they must perform a journey which would last nearly two years.
Who acts: good woman, Dervise, care, journey · What happens: receive, depart, advertise, perform, last · To what, where: proposal, woman, journey
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 (good woman, Dervise, care, journey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 proposal | det |
| 6 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proposal | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 departed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 departed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dervise | det |
| 12 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 departed | nsubj |
| 13 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 departed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 advertising | punct |
| 19 | advertising | advertise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 departed | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 advertising | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 perform | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 perform | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 perform | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 perform | aux |
| 25 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 departed | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 journey | det |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perform | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 last | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 last | aux |
| 30 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 journey | acl:relcl |
| 31 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 32 two | advmod |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 years | nummod |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 last | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the good woman | this proposal | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | past | the Dervise | with the young man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | advertise | gerund | the Dervise not said here | woman | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | perform | must | care | a journey | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 5 | last | would | a journey | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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