Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 11
Tell me, said Caled, thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent.
Who acts: you, Caled, I · What happens: tell, say, listen, know, resemble · To what, where: me, thou, wisdom, Omar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Omar’s Plan of Life.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Caled, I), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | Caled | Caled | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listened | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 listened | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 13 listened | mark |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 nations | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nations | compound |
| 11 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 listened | aux |
| 13 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 known | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 known | cc |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 known | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 known | aux:pass |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 listened | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 extremities | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 extremities | det |
| 22 | extremities | extremity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 known | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Asia | case |
| 24 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 extremities | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 resemble | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 resemble | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 resemble | aux |
| 31 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 resemble | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 prudent | det |
| 34 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 resemble | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Caled | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | present · perfect · passive | thou | voice nations nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present · passive | wisdom | to the extremities of Asia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | resemble | may | I | Omar | the prudent obl:unmarked | 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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