Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 6
It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate; and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary.
Who acts: It, king, dervise · What happens: happen, pass, smile, ask, be, not distinguish · To what, where: gallery, mistake, king, palace
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 (It, king, dervise), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 gallery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gallery | det |
| 10 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 debate | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 debate | det |
| 13 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 asked | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 mistake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mistake | det |
| 20 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smiling | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dervise | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dervise | det |
| 23 | dervise | dervise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mistake | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smiling | punct |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 asked | iobj |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 dull | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dull | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dull | aux |
| 30 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 33 dull | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dull | cop |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 dull | advmod |
| 33 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 asked | xcomp |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 distinguish | mark |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 distinguish | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 distinguish | mark |
| 37 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dull | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 distinguish | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 caravansary | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 caravansary | det |
| 42 | caravansary | caravansary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 palace | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the king king | the gallery | during this debate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gallery=Location | |||
| 3 | smile | gerund | the mistake of the dervise | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | could | king | dull, possibly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not distinguish | to-infinitive | king not said here | a palace | from a caravansary | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent palace=Theme from caravansary=Co-Theme | |||
| 7 | mistake | the dervise | nom mistake «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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