Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 28
The preference which fortune gives, is empty and imaginary; and I perceive, too late, that only things of use are naturally honourable.
Who acts: preference, I, things · What happens: give, be, perceive
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 (preference, I, things), 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 preference | det |
| 2 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fortune | det |
| 4 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 empty | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 empty | cop |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gives | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 imaginary | cc |
| 10 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 empty | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceive | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perceive | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 perceive | nsubj |
| 14 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gives | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 late | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 late | advmod |
| 17 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 perceive | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 honourable | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 honourable | mark |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 things | advmod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 honourable | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 use | case |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 things | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 honourable | cop |
| 25 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 26 honourable | advmod |
| 26 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 perceive | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the preference | which fortune nsubj | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | empty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | perceive | present | I | late property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | things of use | honourable, naturally property | tree rules |
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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