Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 17
The Genius then retired towards the river, and the two shepherds stood waiting the event.
Who acts: Genius, two shepherds · What happens: retire, stand, wait · To what, where: event
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 (Genius, two shepherds), 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 Genius | det |
| 2 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 retired | advmod |
| 4 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shepherds | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 shepherds | nummod |
| 12 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | conj |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 event | det |
| 16 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waiting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | the Genius | then | towards the river | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the two shepherds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the two shepherds not said here | the event | 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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