Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 4
The dervise told them that he intended to take up his night’s lodging in that caravansary.
Who acts: dervise, king · What happens: tell, intend, take up · To what, where: guards, lodging, caravansary · 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, king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dervise | det |
| 2 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 intended | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 intended | nsubj |
| 7 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intended | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 night | nmod:poss |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 night | case |
| 14 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 caravansary | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 caravansary | det |
| 17 | caravansary | caravansary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the dervise | guards = guard | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | intend | past | king | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take up not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's night's lodging | that caravansary | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lodging=Value in caravansary=Location |
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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