Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 11

Almamoulin had been bred to the practice of exact frugality, and had often looked with envy on the finery and expences of other young men: he therefore believed, that happiness was now in his power, since he could obtain all of which he had hitherto been accustomed to regret the want.

Who acts: Almamoulin, happiness · What happens: breed, look, believe, be, obtain, accustom · To what, where: Almamoulin, power, all, want, exact frugality

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almamoulin, happiness), 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	Almamoulin	Almamoulin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bred	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bred	aux:pass
4	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 practice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 practice	det
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bred	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 frugality	case
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frugality	amod
10	frugality	frugality	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practice	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 looked	aux
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
15	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bred	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 envy	case
17	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 finery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 finery	det
20	finery	finery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 envy	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 expences	cc
22	expences	expence	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 finery	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 men	case
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 expences	nmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 believed	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 believed	nsubj
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	30 believed	advmod
30	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bred	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 power	punct
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 power	mark
33	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 power	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 power	cop
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 power	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 power	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 power	nmod:poss
38	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 believed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 obtain	punct
40	since	since	SCONJ	_	43 obtain	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 obtain	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 obtain	aux
43	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 believed	conj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 obtain	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 all	nmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 accustomed	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 accustomed	aux
49	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	51 accustomed	advmod
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 accustomed	aux:pass
51	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 all	acl:relcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 regret	mark
53	regret	regret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 accustomed	xcomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 want	det
55	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 regret	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	past · perfect · passive		Almamoulin			to the practice of exact frugality	tree rules
2	look	past · perfect					with envy on the finery and expences of other young men; often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	believe	past	Almamoulin				therefore property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	happiness		Almamoulin's power	now	Almamoulin nmod:poss	tree rules
5	obtain	could	Almamoulin	all				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
6	accustom	past · perfect · passive		Almamoulin			hitherto property	tree rules
7	regret	to-infinitive		the want				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer want=Stimulus
8	practice			exact frugality				nom practice «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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 11

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 11