Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 6
I had often wished for another opportunity to address the Calif; yet I was confounded at his presence, and throwing myself at his feet, I laid my hand upon my head, and was speechless.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, address, confound, throw, lay, be · To what, where: Calif, I, presence, myself, feet, hand
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | aux |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 wished | advmod |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 opportunity | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 opportunity | det |
| 7 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wished | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 address | mark |
| 9 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 opportunity | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Calif | det |
| 11 | Calif | Calif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 address | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 confounded | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 confounded | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 confounded | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 confounded | aux:pass |
| 16 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wished | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 presence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 confounded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 laid | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 laid | cc |
| 22 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 laid | advcl |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 throwing | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 throwing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throwing | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 laid | nsubj |
| 29 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | parataxis |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 speechless | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 speechless | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 speechless | cop |
| 38 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 laid | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past · perfect | I | for another opportunity; often property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Calif | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calif=Destination | ||||
| 3 | confound | past · passive | I | Calif's presence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | I not said here | myself | Calif's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 5 | lay | past | I | my hand | my head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | past | I not said here | speechless property | 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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