Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 34
I had now nothing left but retirement, and for retirement I never found a time, till disease forced me from public employment.
Who acts: I, disease · What happens: have, leave, not find, force · To what, where: nothing, me, public employment
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, disease), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 retirement | cc |
| 7 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 retirement | case |
| 11 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 found | advmod |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forced | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 forced | mark |
| 19 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forced | nsubj |
| 20 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forced | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 employment | case |
| 23 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 employment | amod |
| 24 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | nothing | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | retirement conj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not find | past | I | time | for retirement | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for retirement=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | force | past | disease | me | public employment | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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