Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 25

Or, if I had been condemned to reside in a comet, that would return but once in a thousand years to their regions of light and life; the hope of these periods, however distant, would cheer men in the dread interval of cold and darkness, and the vicissitude would divide eternity into time.”

Who acts: that, vicissitude, periods · What happens: condemn, reside, return, cheer, divide, hope · To what, where: I, comet, hope, men, dread interval, eternity

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 (that, vicissitude, periods), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	7 condemned	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Or	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 condemned	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 condemned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 condemned	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 condemned	aux:pass
7	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 return	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reside	mark
9	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 condemned	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 comet	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 comet	det
12	comet	comet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reside	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 return	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 once	cc
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 return	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 years	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thousand	det
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 regions	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 regions	nmod:poss
25	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 light	case
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 regions	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 life	cc
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 light	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hope	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hope	det
32	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 periods	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 periods	det
35	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hope	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 distant	punct
37	however	however	ADV	_	38 distant	advmod
38	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hope	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 cheer	punct
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 cheer	aux
41	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 hope	conj
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 cheer	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 interval	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 interval	det
45	dread	dread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 interval	amod
46	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cheer	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 cold	case
48	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 interval	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 darkness	cc
50	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 interval	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 divide	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 divide	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 vicissitude	det
54	vicissitude	vicissitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 divide	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 divide	aux
56	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 return	conj
57	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 divide	obj
58	into	into	ADP	_	59 time	case
59	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 divide	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	condemn a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		I				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reside	to-infinitive			a comet			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comet=Location
3	return	would	that	the hope of this periods		year	to receptacle's regions of light and life result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to region=Result
4	cheer	would	that not said here	men	the dread interval of cold and darkness			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
5	divide	would	the vicissitude	eternity		time		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eternity=Theme
6	hope		this periods					nom hope «feeling 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 25

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 25