Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 58
These ideas determined him, at length, to make all possible attempts to seize upon the candlestick.
Who acts: ideas · What happens: determine, make, seize · To what, where: Abounadar, length, possible attempts
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 (ideas), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 ideas | det |
| 2 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 length | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | parataxis |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 attempts | det |
| 12 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attempts | amod |
| 13 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seize | mark |
| 15 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | advcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 candlestick | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 candlestick | det |
| 18 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seize | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | this ideas | Abounadar | length | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | all possible attempts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | |||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | upon the candlestick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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