Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 49
Abdallah said to him all that a heart sensible to avarice could express when its passion was satisfied, and went to lie down till the morning arrived, which was fixed for his departure.
Who acts: Abdallah, heart, passion, morning · What happens: say, express, be, go, lie down, arrive · To what, where: Abounadar · 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, heart, passion, morning), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 him | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 express | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 express | nsubj |
| 9 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 avarice | case |
| 11 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sensible | obl |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 express | aux |
| 13 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 satisfied | advmod |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 passion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 satisfied | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 satisfied | cop |
| 18 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 express | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lie | mark |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 lie | compound:prt |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 arrived | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 arrived | nsubj |
| 28 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lie | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fixed | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fixed | aux:pass |
| 32 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 arrived | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 departure | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 departure | nmod:poss |
| 35 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Abdallah | Abounadar | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | express | could | a heart | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | heart's passion | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Abdallah not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lie down | to-infinitive | Abdallah not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | arrive | past | the morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fix | past · passive | for Abdallah's departure; which nsubj:pass | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for departure=Beneficiary | |||||
| 8 | depart | Abdallah | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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