Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 11
When I had finished this speech, Almalic stood some moments in suspense, and I continued prostrate before him.
Who acts: I, Almalic · What happens: finish, stand, continue, prostrate · To what, where: speech, suspense
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 speech | det |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | Almalic | Almalic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speech | acl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 moments | det |
| 11 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 suspense | case |
| 13 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 continued | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 continued | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 continued | nsubj |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | parataxis |
| 18 | prostrate | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 continued | xcomp |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prostrate | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | I | this speech | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector speech=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Almalic | this speech not said here | suspense | moment | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent speech=Theme in suspense=Destination | ||
| 3 | continue | past | I | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | prostrate | infinitive | I not said here | before Almalic | 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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