Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 12
None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves.
Who acts: None, wise, little power · What happens: flatter, have · To what, where: poor, little power, 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 (None, wise, little 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 flatter | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 flatter | aux |
| 3 | flatter | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 poor | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flatter | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wise | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flatter | parataxis |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 little | advmod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 flattering | mark |
| 15 | flattering | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 power | acl |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 flattering | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flatter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter | future | None | the poor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poor=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the wise | little power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flatter | gerund | little power not said here | reflections = reflection | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
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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