Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Omar’s Plan of Life., sentence 5
The vigour of Omar began to fail, the curls of beauty fell from his head, strength departed from his hands, and agility from his feet.
Who acts: vigour, curls · What happens: begin, fail, fall, depart · To what, where: agility, curls, head, strength, hands
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 (vigour, curls), 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 vigour | det |
| 2 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Omar | case |
| 4 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 vigour | nmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fail | mark |
| 7 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 curls | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 curls | det |
| 10 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fail | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 curls | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strength | punct |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | conj |
| 19 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 strength | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 departed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 agility | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 agility | cc |
| 25 | agility | agility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 agility | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the vigour of Omar | agility from vigour's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fail | to-infinitive | the vigour of Omar not said here | the curls | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the curls not said here | vigour's head and strength | of beauty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of beauty=Initial_Location from head=Destination | |||
| 4 | depart | participle | strength not said here | vigour's hands | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location |
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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