Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 6
On the contrary, the devotion of the selfish, whether it be thought to avert the punishment which every one wishes to be inflicted, or to insure it by the complication of hypocrisy with guilt, never fails to excite indignation and abhorrence.
Who acts: one · What happens: think, avert, wish, inflict, insure, not fail · To what, where: devotion, punishment, indignation, contrary, selfish, hypocrisy
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 (one), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 devotion | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 devotion | det |
| 6 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contrary | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 selfish | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 selfish | det |
| 9 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 devotion | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | aux:pass |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 contrary | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 avert | mark |
| 16 | avert | avert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 punishment | det |
| 18 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 avert | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wishes | obj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wishes | nsubj |
| 22 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 punishment | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 inflicted | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 inflicted | aux:pass |
| 25 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wishes | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 insure | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 insure | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 insure | mark |
| 29 | insure | insure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 avert | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 insure | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 complication | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 complication | det |
| 33 | complication | complication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 insure | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hypocrisy | case |
| 35 | hypocrisy | hypocrisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 complication | nmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 guilt | case |
| 37 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hypocrisy | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fails | punct |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 fails | advmod |
| 40 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 excite | mark |
| 42 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fails | xcomp |
| 43 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 excite | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 abhorrence | cc |
| 45 | abhorrence | abhorrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 indignation | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | infinitive · passive | devotion | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | avert | to-infinitive | the punishment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | present | every one | the punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inflict not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | every one not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | insure | to-infinitive | devotion | by the complication of hypocrisy with guilt | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | not fail | present | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | excite | to-infinitive | indignation and abhorrence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus indignation=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | devote | the selfish | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | complicate | hypocrisy with guilt | nom complication «act transitive»: of=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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