Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 6
Abdallah a hundred times testified his gratitude to him for all his bounties; but the old man always answered, “My son, it is by actions that gratitude is proved; we shall see in a proper time and place, whether you are so grateful as you pretend.”
Who acts: Abdallah hundred times, old man, gratitude, actions, we, Dervise · What happens: testify, answer, be, prove, see, pretend · To what, where: gratitude, Dervise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 hundred times, old man, gratitude, actions), 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 | Abdallah | Abdallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 times | compound |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 testified | nsubj |
| 5 | testified | testify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 testified | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 testified | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bounties | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 bounties | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bounties | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bounties | bounty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 testified | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 answered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 answered | advmod |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 testified | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 23 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | vocative |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 actions | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 actions | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 actions | cop |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 actions | case |
| 29 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 answered | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 proved | mark |
| 31 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 proved | aux:pass |
| 33 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 actions | acl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 see | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 see | aux |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 testified | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 see | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 place | cc |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 time | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 grateful | punct |
| 45 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 49 grateful | mark |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 grateful | nsubj |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 grateful | cop |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 49 grateful | advmod |
| 49 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 see | parataxis |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 pretend | mark |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 pretend | nsubj |
| 52 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 grateful | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | testify speech: other | past | Abdallah hundred times | Dervise's gratitude | Dervise | for Dervise's bounties | tree rules | ||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | My son vocative; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | gratitude | by actions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prove in a quote | present · passive | actions not said here | gratitude | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | shall | we | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Dervise | grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pretend in a quote | present | Dervise | tree rules |
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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