Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 3
He had not been long in this posture before he was discovered by some of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place?
Who acts: king, some · What happens: have, not be, discover, ask, be · To what, where: posture, king, business, place · 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 (king, some), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 posture | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 posture | det |
| 8 | posture | posture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 discovered | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 discovered | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 discovered | aux:pass |
| 12 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 some | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 discovered | obl:agent |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 guards | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guards | det |
| 17 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 business | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 business | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 business | nmod:poss |
| 25 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 business | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | this posture | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover | past · passive | some of the guards | king | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | king | who nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | king's business | that place | what nsubj; king nmod:poss | 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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