Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 29
I am ashamed, when I compare my malice, to remember your humanity; but if the gods should please to call me to a repossession of my rank and happiness, I would divide all with you, in atonement for my justly punished arrogance.”
Who acts: I, gods · What happens: be, compare, remember, please, call, divide · To what, where: malice, humanity, atonement, me, repossession, rank · 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 (I, gods), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ashamed | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 compare | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 compare | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 compare | nsubj |
| 7 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ashamed | parataxis |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 malice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compare | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remember | mark |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 compare | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 humanity | nmod:poss |
| 14 | humanity | humanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remember | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 please | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 please | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 please | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gods | det |
| 19 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 please | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 please | aux |
| 21 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ashamed | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 call | mark |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 please | xcomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 call | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 repossession | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 repossession | det |
| 27 | repossession | repossession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 call | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rank | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 rank | nmod:poss |
| 30 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 repossession | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 happiness | cc |
| 32 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rank | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 divide | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 divide | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 divide | aux |
| 36 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 please | conj |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 divide | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 divide | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 atonement | punct |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 atonement | case |
| 42 | atonement | atonement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 please | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 arrogance | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 arrogance | nmod:poss |
| 45 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 46 punished | advmod |
| 46 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 arrogance | amod |
| 47 | arrogance | arrogance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 atonement | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ashamed | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | compare | present | I | my malice | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | I not said here | your humanity | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent humanity=Theme | ||||
| 4 | please a condition, not said to happen | should | the gods | atonement for my punished arrogance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call | to-infinitive | the gods not said here | me | a repossession of my rank and happiness | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to repossession=Recipient | |||
| 6 | divide | would | I | with you; all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with you=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | punish | participle | justly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | repossess | my rank and happiness | nom repossession «act transitive»: of=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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