Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 25
I now postponed my purpose of travelling; for why should I go abroad while so much remained to be learned at home?
Who acts: I, travelling · What happens: postpone, go, remain, learn, purpose · To what, where: purpose, home
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, travelling), 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 postponed | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 postponed | advmod |
| 3 | postponed | postpone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 postponed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 travelling | case |
| 7 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purpose | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 go | advmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 postponed | conj |
| 14 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 remained | mark |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 remained | advmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 go | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 learned | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 learned | aux:pass |
| 21 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 learned | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 postponed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | postpone | past | I | my purpose of travelling | now | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go | should | I | abroad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | participle | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | home | vn learn-14-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | purpose | travelling | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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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