Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 5
As they travelled he kept him in affluence, gave him excellent instructions, cured him of a dangerous disease with which he was attacked; in fine, he took the same care of him as if he had been his own son.
Who acts: care, Dervise, journey · What happens: travel, keep, give, cure, attack, take · To what, where: journey, affluence, excellent instructions, Dervise, same care, own son
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 (care, Dervise, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 travelled | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fine | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 affluence | case |
| 8 | affluence | affluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 instructions | amod |
| 13 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cured | punct |
| 15 | cured | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cured | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 disease | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 disease | det |
| 19 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 disease | amod |
| 20 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cured | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 attacked | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 attacked | aux:pass |
| 25 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 disease | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fine | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fine | case |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 took | nsubj |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fine | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 care | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 care | amod |
| 34 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 care | nmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 son | mark |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 son | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 son | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 son | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 son | cop |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 son | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 son | amod |
| 44 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | care | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | past | Dervise | journey | affluence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in affluence=Location | |||
| 3 | give | past | care not said here | excellent instructions | Dervise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=Theme | |||
| 4 | cure | past | care not said here | Dervise | of a dangerous disease | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source of disease=Theme | |||
| 5 | attack | past · passive | Dervise | with a dangerous disease | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take | past | Dervise | the same care of journey | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | past · perfect | Dervise | Dervise's own son | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | care | journey | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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