Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 10
He looked round with a smile of complacency; perceiving that though it was mean, it was neat, and that though I was poor, I appeared to be content.
Who acts: Almalic, that, complacency, I · What happens: look round, perceive, be, appear, smile · To what, where: complacency
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 (Almalic, that, complacency, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 smile | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 smile | det |
| 6 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 complacency | case |
| 8 | complacency | complacency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smile | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 perceiving | punct |
| 10 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 mean | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | cop |
| 15 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 perceiving | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 neat | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 neat | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 neat | cop |
| 19 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mean | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 poor | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poor | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 poor | nsubj |
| 23 | though | though | ADV | _ | 26 poor | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 poor | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 poor | cop |
| 26 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 appeared | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 appeared | nsubj |
| 29 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 poor | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 content | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 content | cop |
| 32 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 appeared | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | Almalic | with a smile of complacency; round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | perceive | gerund | Almalic not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that | complacency nsubj; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | complacency | neat property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | I nsubj; poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | smile | complacency | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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