Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 19
Where shall the lips of the spring breathe fragrance, or the hand of autumn diffuse plenty?
Who acts: lips, hand · What happens: breathe, diffuse · To what, where: fragrance, plenty
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 (lips, hand), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 breathe | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 breathe | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lips | det |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breathe | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lips | nmod |
| 8 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breathe | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 diffuse | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 diffuse | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diffuse | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 autumn | case |
| 15 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 16 | diffuse | diffuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 breathe | conj |
| 17 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diffuse | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | shall | the lips of the spring | fragrance | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | diffuse | present | the hand of autumn | plenty | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plenty=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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