Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 10
And who, says the dervise, was the last person that lodged here?
Who acts: last person · What happens: say, be, lodge · To what, where: last person · 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 (last person), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 says | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dervise | det |
| 6 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 person | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 person | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 person | amod |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lodged | nsubj |
| 13 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lodged | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | who nsubj; the dervise nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the last person | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lodge | past | the last person | here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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