Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 13
“Where reflection is wanting,” replied the king, with a smile of disdain, “men must find their defects in the pain of their sufferings.
Who acts: reflection, king, men · What happens: want, reply, find, smile, pain, suffer · To what, where: defects, pain, disdain, sufferings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (reflection, king, men), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanting | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 wanting | advmod |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanting | aux |
| 5 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanting | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanting | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smile | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smile | det |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 disdain | case |
| 16 | disdain | disdain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smile | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 smile | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 defects | nmod:poss |
| 23 | defects | defect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pain | det |
| 26 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sufferings | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pain | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · progressive | reflection | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | a smile of disdain parataxis | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | must | men | men's defects | the pain of men's sufferings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defect=Topic | |||
| 4 | smile | disdain | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | pain in a quote | men's sufferings | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | suffer in a quote | men = man | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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