Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 32
“How long,” said he, with a deep sigh, “have I been labouring in vain to amass wealth, which at last is useless.
Who acts: Ortogrul, wealth · What happens: say, labour, amass, be · To what, where: vain, wealth, last · 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 (Ortogrul, wealth), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sigh | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sigh | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sigh | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sigh | amod |
| 12 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 labouring | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 labouring | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 labouring | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 labouring | nsubj |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 labouring | aux |
| 18 | labouring | labour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 vain | case |
| 20 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 labouring | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 amass | mark |
| 22 | amass | amass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 labouring | advcl |
| 23 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 amass | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 useless | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 useless | nsubj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 useless | obl |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 useless | cop |
| 29 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wealth | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ortogrul | with a deep sigh; long property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sigh=Manner | ||||
| 2 | labour in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Ortogrul | vain | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | amass in a quote | to-infinitive | Ortogrul not said here | wealth | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | wealth | last | useless property | 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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