Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 50
During the night he was still agitated, without being able to think of any thing but the candlestick and what it produced.
Who acts: passion · What happens: agitate, be, think, produce · To what, where: Abdallah
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 (passion), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agitated | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 agitated | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 agitated | aux:pass |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 agitated | advmod |
| 7 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 agitated | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thing | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 thing | det |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 candlestick | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 candlestick | det |
| 19 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thing | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 what | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 thing | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 produced | nsubj |
| 23 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 agitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agitate | past · passive | Abdallah | still; night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | of any thing but the candlestick | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | produce | past | passion | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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