Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 44
Abdallah obeyed him, and examined twelve magazines of great extent, so full of all manner of riches, that he could not distinguish what merited his admiration most; they all deserved it, and produced new desires.
Who acts: Abdallah, Abounadar, magazines · What happens: obey, examine, not distinguish, merit, deserve, produce · To what, where: Abounadar, twelve magazines, admiration, new desires
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, Abounadar, magazines), 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 | 2 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 obeyed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 examined | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 examined | cc |
| 6 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 magazines | nummod |
| 8 | magazines | magazine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 examined | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 extent | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 extent | amod |
| 11 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 magazines | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 full | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 full | advmod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 examined | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 manner | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 manner | det |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 riches | case |
| 19 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 manner | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 distinguish | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 distinguish | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 distinguish | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 distinguish | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 distinguish | advmod |
| 25 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 full | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 merited | nsubj |
| 27 | merited | merit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 distinguish | ccomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 29 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 merited | obj |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 merited | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 deserved | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deserved | nsubj |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 deserved | advmod |
| 34 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deserved | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 produced | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 produced | cc |
| 38 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 deserved | conj |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 desires | amod |
| 40 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 produced | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Abdallah | Abounadar | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | Abdallah not said here | twelve magazines of great extent | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magazine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not distinguish | could | Abounadar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | merit | past | Abounadar's admiration | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deserve | past | magazines = magazine | admiration | all property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | produce | past | magazines = magazine not said here | new desires | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Result | ||||
| 7 | admire | Abounadar | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=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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