Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 18
If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun diffuse his light, or the clouds distil the dew?
Who acts: sun, clouds · What happens: diffuse, distil, light · To what, where: light, dew
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 (sun, clouds), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 foolish | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 foolish | advmod |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 foolish | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foolish | det |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 diffuse | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vicious | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vicious | det |
| 8 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 foolish | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 diffuse | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 diffuse | advmod |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 diffuse | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diffuse | nsubj |
| 14 | diffuse | diffuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 light | nmod:poss |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 diffuse | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 distil | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 distil | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 distil | nsubj |
| 21 | distil | distil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 diffuse | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dew | det |
| 23 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 distil | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 diffuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | diffuse | shall | the sun | sun's light | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 2 | distil | present | the clouds | the dew | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dew=Theme | ||||
| 3 | light | sun | nom light «phenomenon 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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