Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Ortogrul of Basra., sentence 5
Surely, said he to himself, this palace is that seat of happiness where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission.
Who acts: Ortogrul, palace, pleasure, discontent · What happens: say, be, succeed, pleasure, have · To what, where: Ortogrul, seat, admission · 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, palace, pleasure, discontent), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surely | punct |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seat | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seat | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seat | cop |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 seat | det |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 happiness | case |
| 14 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seat | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 succeeds | advmod |
| 16 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 succeeds | nsubj |
| 17 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pleasure | mark |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 succeeds | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 22 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sorrow | cc |
| 24 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 discontent | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 admission | det |
| 28 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ortogrul | Ortogrul | surely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this palace | that seat | of happiness | tree rules | |||
| 3 | succeed | present | pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pleasure | to-infinitive | pleasure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | can | discontent and sorrow | no admission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admission=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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