Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 10
If I shall find that my merit, like that of others, excites malignity, or feel myself tottering on the seat of elevation, I may at last retire to academical obscurity, and become, in my lowest state, a professor of Bassora.”
Who acts: I, merit · What happens: find, excite, feel, totter, become · To what, where: malignity, myself, seat, lowest state · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merit), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 become | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 excites | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 merit | nmod:poss |
| 7 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 excites | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 that | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 merit | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 that | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 merit | punct |
| 14 | excites | excite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | ccomp |
| 15 | malignity | malignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 excites | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 feel | cc |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 feel | obj |
| 20 | tottering | totter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 feel | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 seat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 seat | det |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tottering | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 elevation | case |
| 25 | elevation | elevation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seat | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 may | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 become | aux |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 retire | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 retire | amod |
| 31 | retire | retire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 may | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 obscurity | case |
| 33 | academical | academical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 obscurity | amod |
| 34 | obscurity | obscurity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 retire | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 become | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 become | cc |
| 37 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 state | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 state | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 state | nmod:poss |
| 41 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 state | amod |
| 42 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 become | xcomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 professor | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 professor | det |
| 45 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 state | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Bassora | case |
| 47 | Bassora | Bassora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 professor | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 state | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | shall | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | excite | present | my merit | malignity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus malignity=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | totter | gerund | I not said here | the seat of elevation | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seat=Location | ||||
| 5 | become | may | my lowest state a professor of Bassora | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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