Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 11
That which can make every station happy, and without which every station must be wretched, is acquired by virtue, and virtue is possible to all.
Who acts: That, station, virtue · What happens: make, be, acquire · To what, where: station
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, station, virtue), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 station | det |
| 6 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wretched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wretched | cc |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wretched | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 station | det |
| 13 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wretched | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wretched | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wretched | cop |
| 16 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 acquired | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 acquired | aux:pass |
| 19 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wretched | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 virtue | case |
| 21 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 acquired | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 possible | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 possible | cc |
| 24 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 possible | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 possible | cop |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 acquired | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 possible | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | That | every station | which nsubj; happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset station=Product | |||
| 2 | is | must | every station | which obl; wretched property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | acquire | present · passive | virtue | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | is | present | virtue | to all; possible property | tree rules |
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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