Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 12
Remember, Almet, the vision which thou hast seen; and let my words be written on the tablet of thy heart, that thou mayest direct the wanderer to happiness, and justify God to men.”
Who acts: you, thou, vision, words, that, my · What happens: remember, have, see, let, write, direct · To what, where: Almet, vision, words, tablet, wanderer, God
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 (you, thou, vision, words), 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Almet | punct |
| 3 | Almet | Almet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vision | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vision | det |
| 6 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Almet | appos |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hast | obj |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 hast | nsubj |
| 9 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vision | acl:relcl |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hast | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remember | parataxis |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 let | obj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 let | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 tablet | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tablet | det |
| 20 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tablet | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 direct | punct |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 direct | nsubj |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 direct | nsubj |
| 27 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 28 direct | aux |
| 28 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wanderer | det |
| 30 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 direct | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 happiness | case |
| 32 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 direct | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 justify | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 justify | cc |
| 35 | justify | justify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remember | conj |
| 36 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 justify | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 men | case |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 justify | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | Almet | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent almet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | thou | the vision | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | the vision not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | my words | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | write | infinitive · passive | my words not said here | the tablet of thy heart | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on tablet=Destination | ||||
| 6 | direct | may | that | the wanderer | to happiness; thou nsubj | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent wanderer=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | justify speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | God | men | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Topic to man=Recipient | |||
| 8 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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