Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 13
Young man, said Omar, it is of little use to form plans of life.
Who acts: Young man, wisdom · What happens: say, be, form, plan · To what, where: plans, life · 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 (Young man, wisdom), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 use | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 use | amod |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Omar | appos |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 form | mark |
| 13 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 use | acl |
| 14 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 form | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plans | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Young man | Omar nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wisdom | of little use | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | Young man not said here | plans of life | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | life | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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