Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 1

Carazan, the merchant of Bagdat, was eminent throughout all the East for his avarice and his wealth: his origin was obscure, as that of the spark, which by the collision of steel and adamant, is struck out of darkness; and the patient labour of persevering diligence alone had made him rich.

Who acts: Carazan, origin, patient labour, steel · What happens: be, strike out, persevere, make, collide · To what, where: darkness, diligence, patient labour

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carazan, origin, patient labour, steel), 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	Carazan	Carazan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eminent	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 merchant	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carazan	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Bagdat	case
6	Bagdat	Bagdat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Carazan	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eminent	cop
9	eminent	eminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 East	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 East	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 East	det
13	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eminent	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 avarice	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 avarice	nmod:poss
16	avarice	avarice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eminent	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wealth	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wealth	nmod:poss
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 avarice	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 obscure	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 origin	nmod:poss
22	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 obscure	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 obscure	cop
24	obscure	obscure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eminent	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 that	punct
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 obscure	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 spark	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spark	det
30	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 collision	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 collision	nsubj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 collision	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 collision	det
35	collision	collision	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spark	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 steel	case
37	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 collision	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 adamant	cc
39	adamant	adamant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spark	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 struck	punct
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 struck	aux:pass
42	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 obscure	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	45 darkness	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 darkness	case
45	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 struck	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 made	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 labour	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 labour	det
49	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 labour	amod
50	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 made	nsubj:pass
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	52 persevering	mark
52	persevering	persevere	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 labour	acl
53	diligence	diligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 persevering	obj
54	alone	alone	ADV	_	52 persevering	advmod
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 made	aux
56	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eminent	parataxis
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 made	obj
58	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 made	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eminent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Carazan		throughout all East	for Carazan's avarice and Carazan's wealth; eminent property	tree rules
2	is	past	Carazan's origin			as that of the spark and the collision the spark and the collision of steel and adamant of steel and adamant; obscure property	tree rules
3	strike out	present · passive	Carazan's origin not said here	darkness			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: darkness=Patient
4	persevere	gerund	the patient labour not said here	diligence		alone property	tree rules
5	make	past · perfect · passive		the patient labour		Carazan obj; rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product
6	collide		steel				nom collision «event 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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 1

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 1