Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 1
Omar, the hermit of the mountain Aubukabis, which rises on the east of Mecca, and overlooks the city, found one evening a man sitting pensive and alone, within a few paces of his cell.
Who acts: Omar, man · What happens: rise, overlook, find, sit · To what, where: east, city, man
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar, man), 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 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rises | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hermit | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hermit | det |
| 4 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Omar | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Aubukabis | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Aubukabis | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Aubukabis | compound |
| 8 | Aubukabis | Aubukabis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hermit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rises | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rises | nsubj |
| 11 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 east | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 east | det |
| 14 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rises | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mecca | case |
| 16 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 east | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 overlooks | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 overlooks | cc |
| 19 | overlooks | overlook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rises | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 overlooks | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 overlooks | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 evening | nummod |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 28 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 man | acl |
| 29 | pensive | pensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sitting | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 alone | cc |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pensive | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 paces | punct |
| 33 | within | within | ADP | _ | 36 paces | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 paces | det |
| 35 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 paces | amod |
| 36 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sitting | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 cell | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cell | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 paces | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | Omar | the east of Mecca | which nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on east=Location | |||
| 2 | overlook | present | Omar not said here | the city | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | a man | evening | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a man not said here | within a few paces of Omar's cell; pensive property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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