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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 8

I will show my wisdom by my discourse, and my moderation by my silence; I will instruct the modest with easy gentleness, and repress the ostentatious by seasonable superciliousness.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: show, instruct, repress, discourse, silence · To what, where: wisdom, modest, ostentatious

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, my), 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

nsubjauxnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnmod:possapposcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjauxconjdetobjcaseamodoblpunctccconjdetobjcaseamodoblpunctrootIPRONwillAUXshowVERBmyPRONwisdomNOUNbyADPmyPRONdiscourseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmyPRONmoderationNOUNbyADPmyPRONsilenceNOUN;PUNCTIPRONwillAUXinstructVERBtheDETmodestADJwithADPeasyADJgentlenessNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJrepressVERBtheDETostentatiousADJbyADPseasonableADJsuperciliousnessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 shownsubj
2willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin3 showaux
3showshowVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
4mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 wisdomnmod:poss
5wisdomwisdomNOUNNumber=Sing3 showobj
6bybyADP_8 discoursecase
7mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 discoursenmod:poss
8discoursediscourseNOUNNumber=Sing3 showobl
9,,PUNCT_12 moderationpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 moderationcc
11mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 moderationnmod:poss
12moderationmoderationNOUNNumber=Sing8 discourseappos
13bybyADP_15 silencecase
14mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 silencenmod:poss
15silencesilenceNOUNNumber=Sing12 moderationnmod
16;;PUNCT_19 instructpunct
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 instructnsubj
18willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin19 instructaux
19instructinstructVERBVerbForm=Inf3 showconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 modestdet
21modestmodestADJDegree=Pos19 instructobj
22withwithADP_24 gentlenesscase
23easyeasyADJDegree=Pos24 gentlenessamod
24gentlenessgentlenessNOUNNumber=Sing19 instructobl
25,,PUNCT_27 represspunct
26andandCCONJ_27 represscc
27repressrepressVERBVerbForm=Inf3 showconj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 ostentatiousdet
29ostentatiousostentatiousADJDegree=Pos27 repressobj
30bybyADP_32 superciliousnesscase
31seasonableseasonableADJDegree=Pos32 superciliousnessamod
32superciliousnesssuperciliousnessNOUNNumber=Sing27 repressobl
33..PUNCT_3 showpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1showfutureImy wisdomby my discoursevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wisdom=Recipient
2instruct speech: otherfutureIthe modestwith easy gentlenessvn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent modest=Recipient
3repressinfinitiveI not said herethe ostentatiousby seasonable superciliousnessvn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ostentatious=Patient by superciliousness=Location
4discoursemynom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5silencemynom silence «state 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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