Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 11

Do the linens of Egypt, and the silks of Persia, bestow felicity on those who wear them, equal to the wretchedness of yonder slaves, whom I see leading the camels that bring them?

Who acts: you, silks, I, slaves, camels · What happens: do, bestow, wear, see, lead, bring · To what, where: linens, felicity, those, silks, slaves, camels

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, silks, I, slaves), 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	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 linens	det
3	linens	linen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 linens	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bestow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bestow	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 silks	det
9	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bestow	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Persia	case
11	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 silks	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 silks	punct
13	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	parataxis
14	felicity	felicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bestow	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 bestow	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 wear	nsubj
18	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 those	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wear	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 equal	punct
21	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bestow	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wretchedness	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wretchedness	det
24	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 equal	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 slaves	case
26	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	27 slaves	advmod
27	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wretchedness	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 see	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 slaves	acl:relcl
32	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 see	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 camels	det
34	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 leading	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 bring	nsubj
36	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 camels	acl:relcl
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	the linens of Egypt			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Eventuality
2	bestow	present	the silks of Persia	felicity	those		tree rules
3	wear	present		silks = silk		who nsubj	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
4	see	present	I	slaves			tree rules
5	lead	gerund	slaves not said here	the camels			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme
6	bring	present	the camels	silks = silk			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 Story of Almet., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 11