Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 12
The arts by which you have gained power and preserved it, are to you no longer necessary or useful; impart to me the secret of your conduct, and teach me the plan upon which your wisdom has built your fortune.
Who acts: you, arts, your · What happens: gain, preserve, be, impart, teach, build · To what, where: power, wisdom, you, secret, me, plan
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, arts, your), 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 arts | det |
| 2 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 necessary | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gained | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 gained | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gained | aux |
| 7 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 arts | acl:relcl |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gained | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 preserved | cc |
| 10 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gained | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 preserved | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 arts | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 necessary | cop |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 necessary | obl |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 necessary | advmod |
| 18 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 useful | cc |
| 20 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 necessary | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 impart | punct |
| 22 | impart | impart | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 necessary | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 impart | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 secret | det |
| 26 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 impart | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 conduct | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 29 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 secret | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 teach | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 teach | cc |
| 32 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 impart | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 teach | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 plan | det |
| 35 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 teach | obj |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 built | obl |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 built | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 built | aux |
| 41 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 plan | acl:relcl |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 43 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 built | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present · perfect | you | power | by the arts | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 2 | preserve | past | you not said here | wisdom | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the arts | you | long, necessary property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | the arts not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | impart | infinitive | the secret of your conduct | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | infinitive | the plan | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plan=Topic | ||||
| 7 | build | present · perfect · passive | your wisdom | upon the plan; your fortune obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=Product | ||||
| 8 | conduct | your | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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