Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 59
The thing was not difficult, Abounadar having trusted him with the keys of the magazines.
Who acts: thing, Abounadar · What happens: not be, trust · To what, where: thing
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 (thing, Abounadar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thing | det |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 difficult | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficult | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trusted | punct |
| 7 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trusted | nsubj |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 trusted | aux |
| 9 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 difficult | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trusted | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 keys | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 keys | det |
| 13 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trusted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 magazines | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magazines | det |
| 16 | magazines | magazine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keys | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the thing | difficult property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | gerund · perfect | Abounadar | thing | with the keys of the magazines | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with key=Theme |
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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