Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 5
The guards told him, in a very angry manner, that the house he was in was not a caravansary, but the king’s palace.
Who acts: guards, house · What happens: tell, not be · To what, where: king, angry manner, 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 (guards, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 manner | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 angry | advmod |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manner | amod |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caravansary | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 caravansary | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caravansary | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caravansary | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 caravansary | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 caravansary | case |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 caravansary | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 caravansary | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 caravansary | det |
| 21 | caravansary | caravansary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 palace | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 palace | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the guards | king | a angry manner | the king's palace parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | not is | past | the house | a caravansary | king nsubj | 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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