Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 17
I will, however, not deviate too far from the beaten track of life, but will try what can be found in female delicacy.
What happens: beat, try, find · To what, where: female delicacy
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: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 deviate | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 deviate | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 will | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 deviate | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 deviate | advmod |
| 7 | deviate | deviate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 deviate | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 track | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 track | det |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 track | amod |
| 13 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 far | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 track | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 try | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 try | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 try | aux |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 deviate | parataxis |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 found | obj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 try | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 delicacy | case |
| 25 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 delicacy | amod |
| 26 | delicacy | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deviate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | try | future | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | find | can · passive | female delicacy | what obj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: what=Topic |
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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