Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 31

In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures.

Who acts: I, time · What happens: begin, suspect, be, think, lay, indulge · To what, where: hold, felicity, myself, domestic pleasures

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, time), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 year	nmod:poss
3	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 suspect	mark
8	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 past	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 past	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 travelling	case
13	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 past	cop
15	past	past	ADV	_	8 suspect	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 best	expl
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 thought	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 lay	mark
22	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	advcl
23	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 felicity	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 felicity	det
26	felicity	felicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 power	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 power	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 power	nmod:poss
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 indulge	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 indulge	cc
33	indulge	indulge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lay	conj
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 indulge	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 pleasures	case
36	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pleasures	amod
37	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 indulge	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I			year		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	suspect	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the time of travelling				past property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	I not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay	to-infinitive	I not said here	hold	the felicity		in my power	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on felicity=Destination
6	indulge	infinitive	I not said here	myself	domestic pleasures			tree rules

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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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 31