Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 6
Hassan fixed his eyes upon the ground, and remained some time silent; then fetching a deep sigh, he looked up at the hermit, and thus complied with his request.
Who acts: Hassan · What happens: fix, remain, fetch, look up, comply, request · To what, where: eyes, deep sigh
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 (Hassan), 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 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | nsubj |
| 2 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fixed | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remained | cc |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fixed | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | obj |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remained | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fetching | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fetching | advmod |
| 16 | fetching | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fixed | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sigh | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sigh | amod |
| 19 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fetching | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fixed | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 looked | compound:prt |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 hermit | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hermit | det |
| 26 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 complied | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 complied | cc |
| 29 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 30 complied | advmod |
| 30 | complied | comply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 looked | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 request | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 request | nmod:poss |
| 33 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 complied | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Hassan | Hassan's eyes | upon the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | remain | past | Hassan not said here | time | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | fetch | gerund | Hassan not said here | a deep sigh | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | |||
| 4 | look up | past | Hassan | at the hermit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hermit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | comply | participle | Hassan not said here | with Hassan's request; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | request | Hassan | nom request «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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