Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 28
I reflected with intolerable anguish, that when ten thousand thousand years had carried me beyond the reach of all but that power who fills infinitude, I should still look forward into an immense abyss of darkness, through which I should still drive without succour and without society, farther and farther still, for ever and for ever.
Who acts: I, power · What happens: reflect, carry, fill, look, drive · To what, where: that, infinitude
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, power), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 reflected | nsubj |
| 2 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 anguish | case |
| 4 | intolerable | intolerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anguish | amod |
| 5 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflected | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 thousand | compound |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thousand | compound |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reflected | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 reach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reach | det |
| 18 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 reach | nmod |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 look | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 fills | mark |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fills | nsubj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fills | nsubj |
| 25 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 look | advcl |
| 26 | infinitude | infinitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fills | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fills | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 look | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 look | aux |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 look | advmod |
| 31 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 all | conj |
| 32 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 31 look | advmod |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 abyss | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 abyss | det |
| 35 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 abyss | amod |
| 36 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 look | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 darkness | case |
| 38 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 abyss | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 drive | punct |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 drive | obl |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 drive | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 drive | aux |
| 44 | still | still | ADV | _ | 45 drive | advmod |
| 45 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 carried | advcl |
| 46 | without | without | ADP | _ | 47 succour | case |
| 47 | succour | succour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 drive | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 society | cc |
| 49 | without | without | ADP | _ | 50 society | case |
| 50 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 succour | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 farther | punct |
| 52 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 drive | advmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 farther | cc |
| 54 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 52 farther | conj |
| 55 | still | still | ADV | _ | 52 farther | advmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 ever | punct |
| 57 | for | for | ADP | _ | 58 ever | case |
| 58 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 drive | advmod |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 ever | cc |
| 60 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 ever | case |
| 61 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 58 ever | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past | I | with intolerable anguish | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect · passive | that | beyond the reach of all; me obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Value | ||||
| 3 | fill | present | power | infinitude | who nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent infinitude=Patient | |||
| 4 | look | should | I | still | into a immense abyss of darkness; forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into abyss=Theme | |||
| 5 | drive | should | I | still; still | without succour and society; which obl; far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through which=Trajectory |
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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