Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 2
The shortness and uncertainty of our time here, makes such a kind of hope unreasonable and absurd.
Who acts: shortness · What happens: make · To what, where: kind
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 (shortness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shortness | det |
| 2 | shortness | shortness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 uncertainty | cc |
| 4 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shortness | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 time | nmod:poss |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncertainty | nmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 time | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shortness | punct |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 kind | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hope | case |
| 15 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | unreasonable | unreasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 absurd | cc |
| 18 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 unreasonable | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the shortness and uncertainty of our time | such kind of hope | unreasonable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |
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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