Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 11
They tell thee that thou art wise, but what does wisdom avail with poverty?
Who acts: reflections · What happens: tell, avail · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (reflections), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 art | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | advcl |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 art | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 avail | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 avail | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 avail | obj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 avail | aux |
| 12 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 avail | compound |
| 13 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 poverty | case |
| 15 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 avail | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | reflections = reflection | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | avail | present · do-support | reflections = reflection not said here | with poverty; what obj; wisdom compound | tree rules |
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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