Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 12
After he had accepted some coffee, he asked me many questions; and though by my answers I always endeavoured to excite him to mirth, yet I perceived that he grew thoughtful, and eyed me with a placid but fixed attention.
Who acts: Almalic, I, my · What happens: accept, ask, endeavour, excite, perceive, grow · To what, where: coffee, many questions, me, answers, Almalic
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, I, my), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 accepted | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accepted | aux |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 coffee | det |
| 6 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 questions | amod |
| 12 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 answers | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 answers | cc |
| 15 | though | though | ADV | _ | 18 answers | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 answers | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 answers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 endeavoured | advmod |
| 21 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 answers | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 excite | mark |
| 23 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 excite | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mirth | case |
| 26 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 excite | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 perceived | punct |
| 28 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 30 perceived | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 perceived | nsubj |
| 30 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 endeavoured | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 grew | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 grew | nsubj |
| 33 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 perceived | advcl |
| 34 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 grew | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eyed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eyed | cc |
| 37 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 endeavoured | conj |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 eyed | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 attention | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 attention | det |
| 41 | placid | placid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 attention | amod |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 fixed | cc |
| 43 | fixed | fixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 placid | conj |
| 44 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 eyed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past · perfect | Almalic | some coffee | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Almalic | many questions | me | my answers parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 3 | endeavour | past | I | my answers not said here | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | excite | to-infinitive | I not said here | Almalic | to mirth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | perceive | past | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | grow | past | Almalic | thoughtful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eye | past | I not said here | me | with a placid attention | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | answer | my | nom answer «communication 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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