Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 19
I will then retire to a rural dwelling, pass my last days in obscurity and contemplation, and lie silently down on the bed of death.
Who acts: I · What happens: retire, pass, lie · To what, where: obscurity, bed
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), 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 | 4 retire | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 retire | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 retire | advmod |
| 4 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dwelling | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dwelling | det |
| 7 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dwelling | amod |
| 8 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 retire | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pass | punct |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 retire | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 days | nmod:poss |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pass | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 obscurity | case |
| 15 | obscurity | obscurity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pass | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 contemplation | cc |
| 17 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 obscurity | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lie | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lie | cc |
| 20 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 retire | conj |
| 21 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 22 down | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lie | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lie | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 death | case |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bed | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | future | I | then | to a rural dwelling | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | I not said here | obscurity and contemplation | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in obscurity=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | infinitive | I not said here | the bed of death | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
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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