Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 14

When I reflected that my lot for eternity was cast, which not all the powers of nature could reverse, my confidence totally forsook me; and while I stood trembling and silent, covered with confusion, and chilled with horror, I was thus addressed by the radiance that flamed before me:—

Who acts: I, powers, confidence, radiance, my · What happens: reflect, cast, reverse, forsake, stand, tremble · To what, where: lot, me, I

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 (I, powers, confidence, radiance), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 reflected	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 addressed	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cast	mark
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lot	nmod:poss
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cast	nsubj:pass
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 eternity	case
8	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lot	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cast	aux:pass
10	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reflected	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reverse	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 reverse	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 all	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 powers	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 powers	det
16	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reverse	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 nature	case
18	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 powers	nmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 reverse	aux
20	reverse	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cast	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forsook	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 confidence	nmod:poss
23	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forsook	nsubj
24	totally	totally	ADV	_	25 forsook	advmod
25	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reverse	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 forsook	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 stood	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	conj
32	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 stood	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 silent	cc
34	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 trembling	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 covered	punct
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 trembling	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 confusion	case
38	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 covered	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chilled	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 chilled	cc
41	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reflected	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 horror	case
43	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chilled	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 addressed	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 addressed	aux:pass
47	thus	thus	ADV	_	48 addressed	advmod
48	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 radiance	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 radiance	det
51	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 addressed	obl
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 flamed	nsubj
53	flamed	flame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 radiance	acl:relcl
54	before	before	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 flamed	obl
56	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 addressed	punct
57	—	-	PUNCT	_	48 addressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	I				tree rules
2	cast	past · passive		my lot for eternity			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	reverse	could	all powers of nature			which obj	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	forsake	past	my confidence	me		totally property	tree rules
5	stand	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	tremble	gerund	I not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cover	participle	I not said here			with confusion	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with confusion=Theme
8	chill	participle	I not said here			with horror	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with horror=Instrument
9	address	past · passive	the radiance	I		thus property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
10	flame	past	the radiance		before me		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location
11	confide		my				nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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 14

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 14