Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 17
As soon as by this means I am master of ten thousand, I will lay aside my trade of a glass-man, and turn jeweller.
Who acts: this, I, my · What happens: mean, be, lay, turn, trade · To what, where: master, jeweller, glass man
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 (this, I, my), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 means | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 means | mark |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 master | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | cop |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thousand | case |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 master | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | aux |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | conj |
| 17 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 trade | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 22 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 glass | punct |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trade | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 turn | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 turn | cc |
| 27 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | conj |
| 28 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turn | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | soon property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | master | of ten thousand | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lay | future | I | aside my trade of a glass man | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | I not said here | jeweller | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jeweller=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trade | my | a glass man | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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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