Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 18
I will marry a wife beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide; with her I will live twenty years within the suburbs of Bagdat, in every pleasure that wealth can purchase, and fancy can invent.
Who acts: I, wealth, fancy · What happens: marry, live, purchase, invent · To what, where: wife, pleasure
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 (I, wealth, fancy), 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 | 3 marry | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 marry | aux |
| 3 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marry | obj |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 marry | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Houries | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Houries | det |
| 9 | Houries | houry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beautiful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wise | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wise | cc |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beautiful | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Zobeide | case |
| 14 | Zobeide | Zobeide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wise | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 live | nmod:poss |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marry | conj |
| 21 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 suburbs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 suburbs | det |
| 25 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Bagdat | case |
| 27 | Bagdat | Bagdat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 suburbs | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pleasure | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 pleasure | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 pleasure | det |
| 31 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 purchase | mark |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 purchase | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 purchase | aux |
| 35 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 pleasure | acl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 invent | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 invent | cc |
| 38 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 invent | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 invent | aux |
| 40 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marry | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future | I | a wife | beautiful property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | future | I | year | within the suburbs of Bagdat; Zobeide nmod:poss; every pleasure conj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | purchase | can | wealth | every pleasure not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invent | can | fancy | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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