Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 4
Whatever I once desired as the means of happiness, I now possess; but I am not yet happy, and therefore I despair.
Who acts: I, the · What happens: desire, mean, possess, not be, despair · To what, where: Whatever, happiness
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 (I, the), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 desired | obj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 desired | advmod |
| 4 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 means | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desired | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 possess | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 possess | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 possess | advmod |
| 13 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 happy | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 happy | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 happy | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 happy | advmod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 happy | advmod |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 desired | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 despair | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 despair | cc |
| 23 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 25 despair | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 despair | nsubj |
| 25 | despair | despair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 happy | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | I | Whatever | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | the | of happiness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | possess | present | I | happiness not said here | now | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme | |||
| 4 | not is | present | I | yet | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | despair | present | I | therefore property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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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