Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 10
How different, Ortogrul, is thy condition, who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire, and who hast no amusement in thy power that can withhold thee from thy own reflections!
Who acts: different Ortogrul, condition, power · What happens: be, art, doom, have, withhold, torment · To what, where: condition, art, amusement, power, thee, own reflections
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Ortogrul of Basra.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (different Ortogrul, condition, power), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 different | advmod |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ortogrul | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ortogrul | punct |
| 4 | Ortogrul | Ortogrul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 condition | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ortogrul | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 condition | cop |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 condition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 art | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 art | nsubj |
| 11 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 condition | nmod |
| 12 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 art | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 torments | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 torments | det |
| 15 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 torments | compound |
| 16 | torments | torment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doomed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 desire | case |
| 18 | unsatisfied | unsatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 desire | amod |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 torments | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hast | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hast | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hast | nsubj |
| 23 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 condition | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 amusement | det |
| 25 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hast | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 power | case |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 power | nmod:poss |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hast | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 withhold | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 withhold | aux |
| 31 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 power | acl:relcl |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 withhold | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 reflections | case |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 reflections | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 reflections | amod |
| 36 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 withhold | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | different Ortogrul | thy condition | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | art | thy condition | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | doom | participle | art not said here | to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thy condition | no amusement | thy power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Patient | |||
| 5 | withhold | can | thy power | thee | thy own reflections | tree rules | |||
| 6 | torment | unsatisfied desire | nom torment «state transitive»: of=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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