Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 10
To him who touches the mountains and they smoke, the Almighty and the Most Merciful, be everlasting honour! he has ordained sleep to be the minister of instruction, and his visions have reproved me in the night.
Who acts: mountains, Carazan, visions · What happens: touch, smoke, be, ordain, reprove · To what, where: mountains, Carazan, Almighty, everlasting honour, sleep, minister
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 (mountains, Carazan, visions), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touches | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 touches | nsubj |
| 4 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountains | det |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touches | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smoke | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smoke | nsubj |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 touches | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Almighty | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Almighty | det |
| 12 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smoke | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Merciful | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Merciful | det |
| 15 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 Merciful | amod |
| 16 | Merciful | Merciful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Almighty | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 honour | punct |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 honour | cop |
| 19 | everlasting | everlasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 honour | amod |
| 20 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smoke | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 honour | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ordained | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ordained | aux |
| 24 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 honour | acl:relcl |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ordained | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 minister | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 minister | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 minister | det |
| 29 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ordained | advcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 instruction | case |
| 31 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 minister | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 reproved | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 reproved | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 visions | nmod:poss |
| 35 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 reproved | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 reproved | aux |
| 37 | reproved | reprove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 touches | conj |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 reproved | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 night | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 night | det |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reproved | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | the mountains | Carazan | who nsubj | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | smoke | present | mountains = mountain | the Almighty and the Most Merciful | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent almighty=Source | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | mountains = mountain not said here | everlasting honour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ordain | present · perfect | Carazan | sleep | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Carazan not said here | the minister | of instruction | tree rules | |||
| 6 | reprove | present · perfect | Carazan's visions | me | night | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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