Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 9

Thus to the sojourner upon earth it is of little moment whether the path he treads be strewed with flowers or with thorns, if he perceives himself to approach these regions, in comparison of which the thorns and the flowers of this wilderness lose their distinction, and are both alike impotent to give pleasure or pain.

Who acts: sojourner, value, thorns, flowers · What happens: be, strew, perceive, approach, lose, give · To what, where: path, value, regions, comparison, distinction, alike impotent

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 (sojourner, value, thorns, flowers), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 sojourner	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 sojourner	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sojourner	det
4	sojourner	sojourner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moment	nsubj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 earth	case
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sojourner	nmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 moment	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 moment	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moment	amod
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 strewed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strewed	nsubj:pass
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 treads	nsubj
16	treads	tread	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 strewed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 strewed	aux:pass
18	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 moment	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strewed	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thorns	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 thorns	case
23	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flowers	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 perceives	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 perceives	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 perceives	nsubj
27	perceives	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 moment	parataxis
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 perceives	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 approach	mark
30	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 perceives	advcl
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 regions	det
32	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 approach	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 comparison	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 comparison	case
35	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 approach	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 lose	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 thorns	det
39	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 lose	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flowers	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 flowers	det
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thorns	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 wilderness	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 wilderness	det
45	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flowers	nmod
46	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 comparison	acl:relcl
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 distinction	nmod:poss
48	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lose	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 impotent	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 impotent	cc
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 impotent	cop
52	both	both	ADV	_	53 alike	advmod
53	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 impotent	amod
54	impotent	impotent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 perceives	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 give	mark
56	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 impotent	acl
57	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 give	obj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 pain	cc
59	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pleasure	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sojourner upon earth			of little moment		tree rules
2	strew	present · passive		the path			with flowers or thorns	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=Theme
3	perceive a condition, not said to happen	present	value	value				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
4	approach	to-infinitive	value not said here	this regions	comparison			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme
5	lose	present	the thorns and the flowers of this wilderness	flowers's distinction			of comparison	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent distinction=Theme of which=Initial_Location
6	is a	present	value not said here	alike impotent				tree rules
7	give	to-infinitive	value not said here	pleasure or pain				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
8	distinguish		flowers = flower					nom distinction «cognition 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 9

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 9