Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 10
Yet his distinction was nobler than yours: it was the distinction of soul, not of birth; the superiority of worth, not of fortune!
Who acts: distinction, reward · What happens: be, distinguish · To what, where: distinction
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinction, reward), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 nobler | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 distinction | nmod:poss |
| 3 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nobler | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nobler | cop |
| 5 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nobler | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 distinction | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 distinction | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 distinction | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distinction | det |
| 12 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nobler | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soul | case |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distinction | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 birth | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 birth | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 birth | case |
| 18 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distinction | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 superiority | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 superiority | det |
| 21 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distinction | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 worth | case |
| 23 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 superiority | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fortune | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 fortune | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fortune | case |
| 27 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worth | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 nobler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | distinction's distinction | than yours; noble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | reward | the distinction and birth and the superiority | of soul; birth conj; the superiority conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | distinguish | distinction | nom distinction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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