Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 3
They turned their eyes every way, and saw a being of mighty stature advancing through the valley, whom they knew upon his nearer approach to be the Genius of Distribution.
Who acts: flocks, mighty stature, Raschid · What happens: turn, see, be, advance, know, approach · To what, where: eyes, valley, mighty stature, Genius
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 (flocks, mighty stature, Raschid), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stature | det |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stature | cop |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stature | case |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stature | amod |
| 14 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 15 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stature | acl |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 valley | det |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advancing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 knew | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stature | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 approach | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 approach | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 approach | amod |
| 26 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 Genius | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 Genius | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Genius | det |
| 30 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 approach | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Distribution | case |
| 32 | Distribution | Distribution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Genius | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | flocks = flock | flocks's eyes | every way xcomp | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | flocks = flock not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of a mighty stature | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | advance | gerund | a mighty stature not said here | the valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through valley=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | know | past | flocks = flock | a mighty stature | upon Raschid's nearer approach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | the Genius | of Distribution | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | approach | Raschid | nom approach «act intransitive»: 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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