Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 26
I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire.
Who acts: I · What happens: immure, study · To what, where: myself, laws
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 | 2 immured | nsubj |
| 2 | immured | immure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 immured | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 immured | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 studied | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 studied | cc |
| 9 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 immured | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 laws | det |
| 11 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 studied | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 empire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 empire | det |
| 14 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laws | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 immured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | immure | past | I | myself | year | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 2 | study | past | I not said here | the laws of the empire | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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