Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 7

The basket-maker, who saw himself undone, complained of the oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury, than the respect due to the rank of the offender; and the reward this imprudence procured him, was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches, and all kinds of insult and indignity.

Who acts: reward, maker · What happens: undo, complain, procure, be, sense · To what, where: basket maker, maker, additional injustice, injury

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 (reward, maker), 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	4 maker	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maker	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 basket	punct
4	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undone	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 undone	aux:pass
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 saw	obj
9	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 complained	punct
11	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 undone	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 oppression	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 oppression	det
14	oppression	oppression	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 complained	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 terms	case
16	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 oppression	nmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 suited	advmod
18	suited	suited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 terms	amod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 sense	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sense	nmod:poss
21	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suited	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 injury	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 injury	det
24	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sense	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 respect	punct
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 respect	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 respect	det
28	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undone	obl
29	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	32 rank	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 due	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rank	det
32	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 respect	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 offender	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 offender	det
35	offender	offender	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rank	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 procured	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 procured	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 reward	det
39	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 procured	nsubj
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 imprudence	det
41	imprudence	imprudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 procured	nsubj
42	procured	procure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 undone	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 procured	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 injustice	punct
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 injustice	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 injustice	det
47	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 injustice	amod
48	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 procured	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 blows	case
50	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 injustice	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 reproaches	cc
52	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 blows	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 kinds	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 kinds	cc
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 kinds	det
56	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 procured	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 insult	case
58	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 kinds	nmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 indignity	cc
60	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 insult	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 undone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	undo	past · passive		the basket maker	than the respect due the rank of the offender	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	complain speech: other	participle			of the oppression in terms	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	procure	past	the reward	maker	all kinds of insult and indignity obl; this imprudence nsubj	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is a	past		the additional injustice	of blows and reproaches	tree rules
5	sense		maker	the injury		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 7

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 7