Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 4
In one hand he held the sheaves of plenty, and in the other, the sabre of destruction.
Who acts: Distribution · What happens: hold · To what, where: sheaves, one hand
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 (Distribution), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | nummod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheaves | det |
| 7 | sheaves | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 plenty | case |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheaves | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 other | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 other | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 held | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sabre | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sabre | det |
| 17 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 destruction | case |
| 19 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sabre | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Distribution | the sheaves of plenty | one hand | the sabre of destruction obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme in hand=Location |
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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