Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet., sentence 7
If in the treasures of thy wisdom there is any precept to obtain felicity, vouchsafe it to me: for this purpose am I come; a purpose which yet I feared to reveal, lest, like all the former, it should be disappointed.”
Who acts: precept, you, I · What happens: be, obtain, vouchsafe, fear, reveal, treasure · To what, where: treasures, felicity, me, purpose, wisdom
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 (precept, you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 is | mark |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 treasures | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 treasures | det |
| 4 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 is | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wisdom | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treasures | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 vouchsafe | advcl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 precept | det |
| 11 | precept | precept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 obtain | mark |
| 13 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 precept | acl |
| 14 | felicity | felicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obtain | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 16 | vouchsafe | vouchsafe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vouchsafe | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 vouchsafe | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 purpose | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 purpose | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 purpose | det |
| 23 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vouchsafe | obl |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | cop |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 purpose | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 purpose | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 purpose | det |
| 29 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vouchsafe | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 feared | obj |
| 31 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 33 feared | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 feared | nsubj |
| 33 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 purpose | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 reveal | mark |
| 35 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 feared | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 former | punct |
| 37 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 42 former | mark |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 former | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 former | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 former | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 former | det |
| 42 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 reveal | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 disappointed | punct |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 disappointed | nsubj |
| 45 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 disappointed | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 disappointed | cop |
| 47 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vouchsafe | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 vouchsafe | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 vouchsafe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | any precept | the treasures of thy wisdom; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in treasure=Location | ||||
| 2 | obtain | to-infinitive | any precept not said here | felicity | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset felicity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vouchsafe | imperative | you not said here | felicity | me | for this purpose; a purpose obl | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is | present | I | this purpose not said here | come property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fear | past | I | a purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reveal | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | should | precept | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | treasure | thy wisdom | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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