Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 32
But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide.
Who acts: man · What happens: find · To what, where: woman, fifty
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 (man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 finds | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 fifty | case |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 finds | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 man | advmod |
| 7 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finds | obj |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Houries | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Houries | det |
| 13 | Houries | houry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beautiful | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wise | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wise | cc |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 finds | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Zobeide | case |
| 18 | Zobeide | Zobeide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wise | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | no man | a woman | fifty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at fifty=Asset |
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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