--- title: Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics description: Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering its foam on the impending woods. Who acts: Ortogrul, torrent, thunder. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/15/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Oriental tales, for the entertainment…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/) / [Story of Ortogrul of Basra.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/15/) / 18 # Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 18 Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering its foam on the impending woods. **Who acts:** Ortogrul, torrent, thunder · **What happens:** look, see, tumble down, roar, scatter, impend · **To what, where:** torrent, rocks, foam, impending woods This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ortogrul, torrent, thunder), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62868:15:18 # text = Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering its foam on the impending woods. 1 Ortogrul Ortogrul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 torrent torrent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 tumbling tumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 down down ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 roaring roar VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 scattering scatter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 impending impend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Ortogrul | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | Ortogrul *not said here* | a torrent | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torrent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tumble down** | gerund | a torrent *not said here* | the rocks | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme | | 4 | **roar** | gerund | Ortogrul *not said here* | | | | | with the noise of thunder | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with noise=Theme | | 5 | **scatter** | gerund | Ortogrul *not said here* | thunder's foam | | the impending woods | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foam=Theme on wood=Destination | | 6 | **impend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **noise** | | thunder | | | | | | nom noise «event 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/15/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/15/19/) - ↑ back to [Story of Ortogrul of Basra.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62868/15/)