Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 6
Remember, Almet, that the world in which thou art placed, is but the road to another; and that happiness depends not upon the path, but the end; the value of this period of thy existence is fixed by hope and fear.
Who acts: you, world, happiness, hope, thy · What happens: remember, place, be, not depend, fix, value · To what, where: Almet, thou, world, road, end, value · Speech: someone speaks here
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, world, happiness, hope), 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 | _ | 17 road | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 road | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 road | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 placed | obl |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 world | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 world | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 road | cop |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 road | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 road | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 depends | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 depends | cc |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 happiness | det |
| 23 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depends | nsubj |
| 24 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Remember | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 depends | advmod |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 path | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 path | det |
| 28 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depends | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 end | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 end | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 depends | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 fixed | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 value | det |
| 35 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 period | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 period | det |
| 38 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 value | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 existence | case |
| 40 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 existence | nmod:poss |
| 41 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 period | nmod |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fixed | aux:pass |
| 43 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Remember | parataxis |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 hope | case |
| 45 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fixed | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 fear | cc |
| 47 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hope | conj |
| 48 | . | . | 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 | place | present · passive | thou | the world | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the world | the road | to another | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not depend | present | that happiness | the end | upon the path | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | fix | present · passive | hope and fear | the value of this period of thy existence | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | value | this period of thy existence | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | exist | thy | nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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