Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 4
The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odours.
Who acts: brightness, fragrant flower · What happens: waste, pass away · To what, where: fuel, own odours
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 (brightness, fragrant flower), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brightness | det |
| 2 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wasting | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flame | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flame | det |
| 5 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brightness | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wasting | aux |
| 7 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fuel | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wasting | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 passing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 12 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 passing | aux |
| 15 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wasting | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 passing | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 odours | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 odours | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 odours | amod |
| 20 | odours | odour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 passing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wasting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | present · progressive | the brightness of the flame | brightness's fuel | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass away | present · progressive | the fragrant flower | brightness's own odours | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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