Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 33
I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of gazing upon girls.
Who acts: I, second year · What happens: inquire, reject, consult, deliberate, make, gaze · To what, where: me
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, second year), 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 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rejected | cc |
| 4 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulted | punct |
| 6 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejected | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deliberated | cc |
| 8 | deliberated | deliberate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consulted | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 12 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 second | nummod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sixty | punct |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 year | amod |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 deliberated | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obj |
| 18 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 gazing | mark |
| 20 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ashamed | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 girls | case |
| 22 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gazing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reject | past | I not said here | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | consult | past | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deliberate | past | I not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | past | the second year | me | ashamed property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 6 | gaze | gerund | the second year not said here | upon girls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon girl=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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