Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 9

I, who dreaded no evil but sickness, and expected no good beyond the reward of my labour, was singing at my work, when Almalic entered my dwelling.

Who acts: I, Almalic, my · What happens: dread, expect, sing, enter, reward, work · To what, where: evil, good, work, dwelling, labour

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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dreaded	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dreaded	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dreaded	nsubj
4	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 evil	det
6	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreaded	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 sickness	cc
8	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evil	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 expected	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 expected	cc
11	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreaded	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 good	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 expected	obj
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 reward	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reward	det
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 expected	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 labour	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 labour	nmod:poss
19	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reward	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 singing	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	aux
22	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 expected	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 work	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 singing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entered	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 entered	advmod
28	Almalic	Almalic	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 entered	nsubj
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	conj
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dwelling	nmod:poss
31	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dread	past	I	no evil but sickness		who nsubj	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus
2	expect	past	I not said here	no good		beyond the reward of my labour	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past · progressive	I not said here		my work		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location
4	enter	past	Almalic	my dwelling			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dwelling=Destination
5	reward			my labour			nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient
6	work		my				nom work «act intransitive»: 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 9