Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 8
The king observed his confusion, and enquired the reason: the surgeon fell prostrate, confessed the whole affair, and was pardoned, and the conspirators died.
Who acts: king, surgeon, conspirators · What happens: observe, enquire, fall, confess, pardon, die · To what, where: confusion, reason, whole affair
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, surgeon, conspirators), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 confusion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enquired | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 enquired | cc |
| 8 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reason | det |
| 10 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enquired | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surgeon | det |
| 13 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reason | parataxis |
| 15 | prostrate | prostrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 confessed | punct |
| 17 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 affair | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 affair | amod |
| 20 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confessed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pardoned | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pardoned | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 24 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 enquired | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 died | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 died | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 conspirators | det |
| 28 | conspirators | conspirator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 died | nsubj |
| 29 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | the king | king's confusion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent confusion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | enquire speech: other | past | the reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the surgeon | prostrate property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | confess | past | the surgeon not said here | the whole affair | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Topic | ||||
| 5 | pardon | past · passive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | die | past | the conspirators | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | confuse | king | nom confusion «state transitive»: 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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