Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 19
The flood rolled forward into the lands of Raschid, his plantations were torn up, his flocks overwhelmed, he was swept away before it, and a crocodile devoured him.
Who acts: flood, flocks, crocodile · What happens: roll forward, tear up, overwhelm, sweep away, devour · To what, where: lands, plantations, Raschid, flood
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 (flood, flocks, crocodile), 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 flood | det |
| 2 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 lands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lands | det |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Raschid | case |
| 9 | Raschid | Raschid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 torn | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 plantations | nmod:poss |
| 12 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 torn | aux:pass |
| 14 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rolled | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 torn | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 overwhelmed | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 19 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 torn | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swept | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swept | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 swept | aux:pass |
| 23 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rolled | parataxis |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 swept | advmod |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swept | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 devoured | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 devoured | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 crocodile | det |
| 30 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 devoured | nsubj |
| 31 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 swept | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 devoured | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll forward | past | the flood | the lands of Raschid | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into land=Destination | |||
| 2 | tear up | past · passive | Raschid's plantations | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | overwhelm | past | Raschid's flocks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sweep away | past · passive | Raschid | flood | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme before it=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | devour | past | a crocodile | Raschid | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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