Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 21
Retire, and enjoy thy riches in sordid ostentation; thou wast born to be wealthy, but never canst be great.
Who acts: you · What happens: retire, enjoy, bear, be, not be · To what, where: riches, sordid ostentation, thou
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 (you), 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 | Retire | retire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 enjoy | cc |
| 4 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Retire | conj |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 riches | nmod:poss |
| 6 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ostentation | case |
| 8 | sordid | sordid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ostentation | amod |
| 9 | ostentation | ostentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enjoy | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Retire | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wealthy | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wealthy | cop |
| 16 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 born | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 great | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 great | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 great | advmod |
| 20 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 great | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 great | cop |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 born | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Retire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | imperative | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | infinitive | you not said here | thy riches | sordid ostentation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | thou | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | wealthy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not is | can | great property | tree rules |
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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