Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 28
Hassan, having thus ended his story, smote his hands together, and looking upwards, burst into tears.
Who acts: Hassan, story · What happens: have, end, smote, look, burst · To what, where: hands, tears
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, story), 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 | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hassan | punct |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ended | csubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 having | advmod |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smote | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smote | punct |
| 9 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ended | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smote | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 smote | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burst | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burst | cc |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 burst | advcl |
| 16 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 18 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tears | case |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 burst | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | end | past | Hassan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | smote | infinitive | Hassan's story | Hassan's hands | together property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | upwards property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | burst | past | Hassan not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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