Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 31
And it continues to this day a custom in that island, to degrade all gentlemen who cannot give a better reason for their pride, than they were born to do nothing: and the word for this due punishment is, send him to the basket-maker.
Who acts: captain, gentlemen, word, islands · What happens: continue, degrade, not give, bear, do, be · To what, where: gentlemen, better reason, islands, nothing
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 (captain, gentlemen, word, islands), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 continues | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continues | nsubj |
| 3 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continues | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 custom | det |
| 8 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 custom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 degrade | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 degrade | mark |
| 14 | degrade | degrade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continues | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gentlemen | det |
| 16 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 degrade | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 give | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 give | advmod |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 gentlemen | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 reason | det |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 reason | amod |
| 23 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 pride | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 born | punct |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 31 born | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 born | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 born | aux:pass |
| 31 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 degrade | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 born | xcomp |
| 34 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 do | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 word | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 word | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 word | det |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 send | nsubj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 punishment | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 punishment | det |
| 41 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 punishment | amod |
| 42 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | nmod |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 send | cop |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 is | punct |
| 45 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continues | parataxis |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 send | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 maker | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 maker | det |
| 49 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 maker | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 basket | punct |
| 51 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 send | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | captain | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | degrade | to-infinitive | captain not said here | all gentlemen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not give | can | all gentlemen | a better reason | for islands's pride | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent reason=Theme for pride=Asset | |||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | islands = island | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the word for this due punishment | to the basket maker; gentleman obj; send property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pride | islands = island | nom pride «feeling 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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