Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 27
The agonies of despair every moment increased, as every moment augmented my distance from the last habitable world.
Who acts: agonies, moment · What happens: increase, augment · To what, where: distance, last habitable world
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 (agonies, moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 agonies | det |
| 2 | agonies | agony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 agonies | nmod |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 7 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 augmented | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 augmented | mark |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 augmented | nsubj |
| 12 | augmented | augment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 increased | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 distance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 augmented | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 18 | habitable | habitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 augmented | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the agonies of despair | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | augment | past | every moment | my distance | the last habitable world | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent distance=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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