Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 5
He entered with a kind of joyful impatience in his countenance, which, the moment he beheld me, was changed to a mixture of wonder and pity.
Who acts: Calif · What happens: enter, behold, change · To what, where: moment
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 (Calif), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 kind | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 impatience | case |
| 7 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 impatience | amod |
| 8 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 countenance | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 impatience | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 me | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 me | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 me | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 me | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beheld | nsubj |
| 18 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moment | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 countenance | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 changed | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 changed | aux:pass |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 entered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 mixture | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mixture | det |
| 25 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wonder | case |
| 27 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mixture | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pity | cc |
| 29 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mixture | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Calif | with a kind of joyful impatience in Calif's countenance me | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Calif | the moment not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moment=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | Calif not said here | to a mixture of wonder and pity result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: to mixture=Result |
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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