Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 16
“Ah, Sir,” said the dervise, “a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.”
Who acts: Sir, house · What happens: say, change, receive, not be · To what, where: dervise, inhabitants, perpetual succession, palace · 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 (Sir, house), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sir | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sir | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dervise | det |
| 9 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 house | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dervise | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 changes | nsubj |
| 15 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 house | acl:relcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 changes | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 often | advmod |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 changes | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 receives | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 receives | cc |
| 22 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 succession | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 succession | det |
| 25 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 succession | compound |
| 26 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receives | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 guests | case |
| 28 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 succession | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 palace | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 palace | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 palace | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receives | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 caravansary | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 caravansary | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 caravansary | det |
| 37 | caravansary | caravansary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 receives | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 receives | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 receives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | the dervise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change in a quote | present | a house | house's inhabitants | often property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient | |||
| 3 | receive in a quote | present | such perpetual succession of guests | a caravansary obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent succession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | a palace | 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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