Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 22
As soon as I recovered from the confusion and astonishment in which the Calif left me, I began to regret that my behaviour had intercepted his bounty; and accused of folly, that cheerfulness which was the concomitant of poverty and labour.
Who acts: I, Calif, cheerfulness · What happens: recover, leave, begin, regret, intercept, accuse · To what, where: confusion, me, astonishment, behaviour, concomitant
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, Calif, cheerfulness), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 recovered | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 recovered | nsubj |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 confusion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 confusion | det |
| 8 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 astonishment | cc |
| 10 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confusion | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 left | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Calif | det |
| 14 | Calif | Calif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 astonishment | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 left | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 regret | mark |
| 21 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 intercepted | mark |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 intercepted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 intercepted | aux |
| 26 | intercepted | intercept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 regret | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bounty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bounty | bounty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 intercepted | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 accused | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 accused | cc |
| 31 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 folly | case |
| 33 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 accused | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cheerfulness | punct |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 cheerfulness | det |
| 36 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 folly | conj |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 concomitant | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 concomitant | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 concomitant | det |
| 40 | concomitant | concomitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cheerfulness | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 poverty | case |
| 42 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 concomitant | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 labour | cc |
| 44 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 concomitant | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | I | the confusion and astonishment | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from confusion=Source | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the Calif | me | astonishment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | regret | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | intercept | past · perfect · passive | my behaviour | Calif's bounty obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | accuse | past | I not said here | of folly and that cheerfulness | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent of folly=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | that cheerfulness | the concomitant and labour | of poverty; labour conj | tree rules |
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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