Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 1
A Dervise, travelling through Tartary, went into the king’s palace by mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary.
Who acts: Dervise · What happens: travel, go, think, be · To what, where: Tartary, palace, Dervise, public inn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of a Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dervise), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Dervise | det |
| 2 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelling | punct |
| 4 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Dervise | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 Tartary | case |
| 6 | Tartary | Tartary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 travelling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dervise | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 mistake | case |
| 15 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | mark |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thinking | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 inn | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 inn | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 inn | det |
| 23 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 inn | amod |
| 24 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 caravansary | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 caravansary | cc |
| 27 | caravansary | caravansary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inn | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | a Dervise not said here | Tartary | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tartary=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past | a Dervise | the king's palace | by mistake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | a Dervise not said here | Dervise | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a public inn or caravansary | caravansary conj | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/9/1/