Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of a Dervise., sentence 8
Who were the persons that lodged in this house when it was first built?
Who acts: persons · What happens: be, lodge, build · To what, where: persons, house
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 (persons), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 persons | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persons | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 persons | det |
| 4 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lodged | nsubj |
| 6 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persons | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodged | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 built | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 built | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 built | aux:pass |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 built | advmod |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lodged | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 persons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the persons | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lodge | past | the persons | this house | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | build | past · passive | house | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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