Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 22
The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: ensue, spend, not know, divert, search, design · To what, where: first part, search, I, design, knowledge · 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 (I, my), 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 | 3 part | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spent | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 spent | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spent | aux:pass |
| 11 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 search | case |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spent | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 knowledge | case |
| 15 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spent | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 diverted | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 diverted | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 diverted | aux:pass |
| 24 | diverted | divert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 know | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 design | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 design | nmod:poss |
| 27 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 diverted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ensue | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spend | past · passive | the first part of my ensuing time | search of knowledge | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | divert | past · passive | I | my design | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | search | knowledge | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | design | my | nom design «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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