Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 38
Peace dawned upon his mind like the radiance of the morning: he returned to his labour with cheerfulness; his devotion became fervent and habitual: and the latter days of Hassan were happier than the first.
Who acts: Peace, devotion, latter days, morning · What happens: dawn, return, become, be, mind, radiate · To what, where: mind
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 (Peace, devotion, latter days, morning), 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 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dawned | nsubj |
| 2 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dawned | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 radiance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 radiance | det |
| 8 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dawned | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 radiance | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dawned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 labour | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 labour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cheerfulness | case |
| 19 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 labour | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 22 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dawned | parataxis |
| 24 | fervent | fervent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 habitual | cc |
| 26 | habitual | habitual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fervent | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 happier | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 happier | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 days | det |
| 30 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 days | amod |
| 31 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 happier | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Hassan | case |
| 33 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 days | nmod |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 happier | cop |
| 35 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 became | conj |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 first | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 first | det |
| 38 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 happier | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past | Peace | Peace's mind | like the radiance of the morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mind=Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | Peace | to Peace's labour with cheerfulness result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to labour=Result | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Peace's devotion | fervent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the latter days of Hassan | than the first; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mind | Peace | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | radiate | the morning | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | devote | Peace | nom devotion «feeling 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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