Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 3
The grave lies unseen between us and the object which we reach after: where one man lives to enjoy the good he has in view, ten thousand are cut off in the pursuit of it.
Who acts: grave, we, one man, man, view · What happens: lie, reach, live, enjoy, have, cut off · To what, where: object, good, view, ten thousand, pursuit, grave
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 (grave, we, one man, man), 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 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | xcomp |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lies | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 object | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 object | det |
| 9 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 us | conj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 reach | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reach | nsubj |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 object | acl:relcl |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 lives | mark |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lives | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nummod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lies | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enjoy | mark |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lives | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 good | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 view | case |
| 26 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cut | punct |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 thousand | compound |
| 29 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cut | aux:pass |
| 31 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 view | acl:relcl |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 cut | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 pursuit | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pursuit | det |
| 35 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cut | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pursuit | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the grave | between us; unseen property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between we=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | present | we | the object | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | one man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enjoy | to-infinitive | one man not said here | the good | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | present | man | view | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | cut off | present · passive | view not said here | ten thousand | the pursuit of grave | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | pursue | grave | nom pursuit «act transitive»: 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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