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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 62

When he was some days journey from Balsora, he sold his slave, resolving not to have a witness of his former poverty, nor of the source of his present riches.

Who acts: Abounadar · What happens: be, sell, resolve, not have · To what, where: days journey, Balsora, slave, witness

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 (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

advmodnsubjcopdetcompoundoblcasenmodpunctnsubjnmod:possobjpunctadvcladvmodmarkxcompdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctcccasedetconjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctrootWhenADVhePRONwasAUXsomeDETdaysNOUNjourneyNOUNfromADPBalsoraPROPN,PUNCThePRONsoldVERBhisPRONslaveNOUN,PUNCTresolvingVERBnotPARTtoPARThaveVERBaDETwitnessNOUNofADPhisPRONformerADJpovertyNOUN,PUNCTnorCCONJofADPtheDETsourceNOUNofADPhisPRONpresentADJrichesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int6 journeyadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 journeynsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 journeycop
4somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 journeydet
5daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur6 journeycompound
6journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing11 soldobl
7fromfromADP_8 Balsoracase
8BalsoraBalsoraPROPNNumber=Sing6 journeynmod
9,,PUNCT_6 journeypunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 soldnsubj
11soldsellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 slavenmod:poss
13slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing11 soldobj
14,,PUNCT_15 resolvingpunct
15resolvingresolveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 soldadvcl
16notnotPARTPolarity=Neg18 haveadvmod
17totoPART_18 havemark
18havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf15 resolvingxcomp
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 witnessdet
20witnesswitnessNOUNNumber=Sing18 haveobj
21ofofADP_24 povertycase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 povertynmod:poss
23formerformerADJDegree=Pos24 povertyamod
24povertypovertyNOUNNumber=Sing20 witnessnmod
25,,PUNCT_29 sourcepunct
26nornorCCONJPolarity=Neg29 sourcecc
27ofofADP_29 sourcecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 sourcedet
29sourcesourceNOUNNumber=Sing11 soldconj
30ofofADP_33 richescase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 richesnmod:poss
32presentpresentADJDegree=Pos33 richesamod
33richesrichNOUNNumber=Plur29 sourcenmod
34..PUNCT_11 soldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastAbounadarsome days journeyBalsoratree rules
2sellpastAbounadarAbounadar's slavethe source of Abounadar's present riches conjvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3resolvegerundAbounadar not said heretree rules
4not haveto-infinitiveAbounadar not said herea witness of Abounadar's former povertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=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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