Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 3
“Almet,” said the stranger, “thou seest before thee a man whom the hand of prosperity has overwhelmed with wretchedness.
Who acts: Almet, thou · What happens: say, see, overwhelm · To what, where: man, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Almet, thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Almet | punct |
| 2 | Almet | almet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Almet | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Almet | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seest | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 seest | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 seest | nsubj |
| 11 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 thee | case |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 seest | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seest | obj |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 overwhelmed | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overwhelmed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 prosperity | case |
| 20 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 overwhelmed | aux |
| 22 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wretchedness | case |
| 24 | wretchedness | wretchedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 overwhelmed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Almet | the stranger nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | thou | a man | before thee | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | overwhelm in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the hand of prosperity | with wretchedness; a man obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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