Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 16
Thou hast sought felicity in temporal things; and, therefore, thou art disappointed.
What happens: seek · To what, where: Thou, temporal things
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: 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | aux |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | felicity | felicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | temporal | temporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | compound |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sought | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 art | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 art | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 art | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 art | punct |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 art | nsubj |
| 14 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | parataxis |
| 15 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 art | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | Thou | temporal things | felicity xcomp | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in thing=Location |
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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