Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 30
Thus have I been taught to estimate society, like every other blessing, by its loss.
Who acts: Thus · What happens: teach, estimate · To what, where: Thus, society
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 (Thus), 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 | Thus | thu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taught | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 taught | aux:pass |
| 5 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 estimate | mark |
| 7 | estimate | estimate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taught | xcomp |
| 8 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 estimate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blessing | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 blessing | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 blessing | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blessing | amod |
| 13 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 estimate | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loss | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 loss | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 loss | nmod:poss |
| 17 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blessing | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | Thus | I nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | estimate | to-infinitive | Thus not said here | society | like every other blessing and society's loss | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent society=Value |
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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