Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 18
He gave me an apartment in the seraglio; I was attended by his own servants; my provisions were sent from his own table; and I received every week a sum from his treasury, which exceeded the most romantic of my expectations.
Who acts: heart, own servants, I, treasury, my · What happens: give, attend, send, receive, exceed, provide · To what, where: apartment, me, seraglio, I, provisions, own table
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 (heart, own servants, I, treasury), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apartment | det |
| 5 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 seraglio | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seraglio | det |
| 8 | seraglio | seraglio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 apartment | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 attended | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 attended | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attended | aux:pass |
| 12 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 servants | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 servants | amod |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 attended | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 table | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 table | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 table | amod |
| 25 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 received | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 received | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 received | nsubj |
| 29 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 week | det |
| 31 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sum | det |
| 33 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 treasury | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 36 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 exceeded | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 exceeded | nsubj |
| 39 | exceeded | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 treasury | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 romantic | det |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 romantic | advmod |
| 42 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 exceeded | ccomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 expectations | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 expectations | nmod:poss |
| 45 | expectations | expectation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 romantic | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | heart | a apartment | me | the seraglio | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient apartment=Theme | ||
| 2 | attend | past · passive | heart's own servants | I | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | my provisions | heart's own table | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | I | a sum | heart's treasury | week | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sum=Theme from treasury=Source | ||
| 5 | exceed | past | heart's treasury | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | provide | my | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | expect | my | nom expectation «cognition 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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