Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 14
“I request,” says Raschid, “that thou wilt turn the Ganges through my grounds, with all his waters, and all their inhabitants.”
Who acts: Raschid, that · What happens: request, say, turn · To what, where: Ganges, grounds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raschid, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 request | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 request | nsubj |
| 3 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 request | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 request | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | aux |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ganges | det |
| 15 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 turn | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 grounds | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 turn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waters | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 waters | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 waters | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 waters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turn | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 inhabitants | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 inhabitants | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 inhabitants | det:predet |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 28 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 says | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 inhabitants | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 inhabitants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request in a quote | present | Raschid | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Raschid | grounds's inhabitants parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | future | that | the Ganges | my grounds | with Raschid's waters; thou nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ganges=Theme through grounds=Trajectory |
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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