Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 52
Why does he now possess this treasure of treasures?
Who acts: Abdallah · What happens: possess, treasure · To what, where: treasure, treasures
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 possess | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possess | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possess | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 possess | advmod |
| 5 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 treasure | det |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 possess | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 treasures | case |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treasure | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 possess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present · do-support | Abdallah | this treasure of treasures | now | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | treasure | treasures | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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