Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 2
The Cham ordered him the sum: upon which the Dervise said, _begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end_.
Who acts: Cham, Dervise, _ · What happens: order, say, begin, not consider · To what, where: sum, Dervise, nothing, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cham, Dervise, _), 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 Cham | det |
| 2 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sum | det |
| 6 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dervise | det |
| 11 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begin | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 begin | nsubj |
| 15 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 begin | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 considered | obl |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 considered | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 considered | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 considered | advmod |
| 23 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 nothing | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 considered | xcomp |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 begin | discourse |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Cham | the sum | Dervise | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary sum=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Dervise | which obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | _ | nothing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not consider | present · perfect · passive | thou | the end | which obl; well property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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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