Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 30
Sometimes I was afraid lest I should be charged with ingratitude; but I still proposed to travel, and therefore would not confine myself by marriage.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, charge, propose, travel, not confine · To what, where: I, myself
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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 9 charged | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 charged | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 charged | aux:pass |
| 9 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ingratitude | case |
| 11 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charged | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 proposed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 proposed | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 proposed | nsubj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 proposed | advmod |
| 16 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 travel | mark |
| 18 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proposed | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 confine | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 confine | cc |
| 21 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 24 confine | advmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 confine | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 confine | advmod |
| 24 | confine | confine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | conj |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 confine | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 marriage | case |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 confine | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | afraid, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | charge | should · passive | I | with ingratitude | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with ingratitude=Theme | ||||
| 3 | propose | past | I | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not confine | would | I not said here | myself | by marriage; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
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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