Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 1
It is a precept oftentimes inculcated, that we should not entertain an hope of any thing in life which lies at a great distance from us.
Who acts: It, we, thing · What happens: be, inculcate, not entertain, lie, hope · To what, where: precept oftentimes, hope
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, we, thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 oftentimes | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 oftentimes | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oftentimes | det |
| 4 | precept | precept | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oftentimes | compound |
| 5 | oftentimes | oftentime | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | inculcated | inculcate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 oftentimes | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entertain | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 entertain | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 entertain | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 entertain | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 entertain | advmod |
| 12 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 inculcated | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hope | det |
| 14 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entertain | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thing | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 thing | det |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hope | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thing | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lies | nsubj |
| 21 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 distance | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 distance | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 distance | amod |
| 25 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lies | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 distance | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 oftentimes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a precept oftentimes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inculcate | participle | a precept oftentimes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not entertain | should | we | a hope of any thing in life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hope=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | any thing in life | at a great distance from us | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | ||||
| 5 | hope | any thing in life | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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