Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 3
The courtiers upon hearing this plain sentence, smiled, and said with a sneer, “The dervise is well paid for his maxim.”
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: hear, smile, say, pay · To what, where: plain sentence, dervise · 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 (courtiers), 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 courtiers | det |
| 2 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 4 hearing | mark |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 courtiers | acl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sentence | det |
| 6 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sentence | amod |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 courtiers | punct |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiled | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sneer | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sneer | det |
| 15 | sneer | sneer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 paid | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 paid | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dervise | det |
| 19 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 paid | aux:pass |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 paid | advmod |
| 22 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 maxim | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 maxim | nmod:poss |
| 25 | maxim | maxim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the courtiers not said here | this plain sentence | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | the courtiers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | with a sneer | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sneer=Manner | |||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | present · passive | the dervise | for Dervise's maxim; well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for maxim=Theme |
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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