Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 13
I suspected that he had some knowledge of me, and therefore inquired his country and his name.
Who acts: I, Almalic · What happens: suspect, have, inquire, name · To what, where: knowledge, country
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 (I, Almalic), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 suspected | nsubj |
| 2 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 suspected | ccomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 knowledge | det |
| 7 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 knowledge | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquired | cc |
| 12 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 13 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 suspected | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 country | nmod:poss |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inquired | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 name | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 country | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Almalic | some knowledge of me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | I not said here | Almalic's country and Almalic's name | therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | Almalic | nom name «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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