Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 9
Abdallah swore to him, he might depend upon his obedience and zeal.
Who acts: Abdallah, Dervise · What happens: swear, depend, obey · To what, where: Dervise
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, Dervise), 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 | 2 swore | nsubj |
| 2 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swore | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 depend | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 depend | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 depend | aux |
| 8 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swore | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 obedience | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 obedience | nmod:poss |
| 11 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 depend | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 zeal | cc |
| 13 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obedience | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | Abdallah | Dervise | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | depend | might | Dervise | upon Dervise's obedience and zeal | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | obey | Dervise | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=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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