Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 4
But the king was so well satisfied with the answer, that he ordered it to be written in golden letters in several places of his palace, and engraved on all his plate.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, order, write, engrave · To what, where: answer, golden letters, plate
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 (king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 satisfied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 answer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ordered | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 written | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 written | aux:pass |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ordered | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 letters | case |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 letters | amod |
| 21 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 written | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 places | case |
| 23 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 places | amod |
| 24 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 letters | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 places | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 engraved | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 engraved | cc |
| 30 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 satisfied | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 plate | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 plate | det:predet |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 plate | nmod:poss |
| 34 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 engraved | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | with the answer; satisfied, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | king | answer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | golden letters in several places of king's palace | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination | ||||
| 4 | engrave | participle | the king not said here | king's plate | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on plate=Destination |
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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