Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 13

That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration.

Who acts: man, wretchedness, none · What happens: be, live, have, reconcile, fault · To what, where: none, man

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 (man, wretchedness, none), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wretched	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wretched	cop
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	7 wretched	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wretched	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 wretched	advmod
7	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sons	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sons	det
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wretched	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wretchedness	case
12	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lives	nsubj
14	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wretchedness	acl:relcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 faults	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 faults	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 faults	amod
18	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lives	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 follies	cc
20	follies	folly	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faults	conj
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 him	advmod
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lives	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wretched	parataxis
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	27 has	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 reconcile	mark
30	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 has	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reconcile	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 reconcile	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 praise	case
35	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reconcile	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 veneration	cc
37	veneration	veneration	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 praise	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that man				of the sons of wretchedness; surely, wretched property	tree rules
2	live	present	wretchedness			before man	with man's own faults and follies	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with fault=Location
3	have	present		none			who nsubj	tree rules
4	reconcile	to-infinitive	none not said here	man	man		by praise and veneration	tree rules
5	fault		man					nom fault «act 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 13