Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 34
“Brother,” said the philosopher, “thou hast suffered thy reason to be deluded by idle hopes, and fallacious appearances.
Who acts: Brother, idle hopes · What happens: say, suffer, delude · To what, where: philosopher, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brother, idle hopes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 philosopher | det |
| 7 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffered | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suffered | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 suffered | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffered | aux:pass |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 reason | nmod:poss |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suffered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 deluded | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deluded | aux:pass |
| 17 | deluded | delude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 reason | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hopes | case |
| 19 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hopes | amod |
| 20 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 deluded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appearances | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appearances | cc |
| 23 | fallacious | fallacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 appearances | amod |
| 24 | appearances | appearance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suffered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother | the philosopher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent philosopher=Topic | ||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | present · passive | thou | fallacious appearances obl; thy reason obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | delude in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | idle hopes | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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