Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 35
Having long looked with desire upon riches, thou hast taught thyself to think them more valuable than nature designed them, and to expect from them what, as experience has now taught thee, they cannot give.
Who acts: thou, nature, riches · What happens: have, look, teach, think, design, expect · To what, where: thou, riches, experience
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 (thou, nature, riches), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 taught | advcl |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | advmod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 desire | case |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 riches | case |
| 7 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 desire | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taught | aux:pass |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 11 taught | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taught | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 valuable | advmod |
| 17 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 designed | mark |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 designed | nsubj |
| 20 | designed | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 valuable | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 designed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 expect | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 expect | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 expect | mark |
| 25 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 taught | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 expect | obl |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 expect | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 taught | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 taught | mark |
| 31 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 taught | aux |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 taught | advmod |
| 34 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 expect | parataxis |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 taught | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 give | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 give | advmod |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 expect | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look | participle | with desire upon riches; long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present · passive | thou | thyself obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | thou not said here | riches = rich | valuable property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 5 | design | past | nature | riches = rich | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result | ||||
| 6 | expect | to-infinitive | from riches = rich; what obj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | experience | now | thee obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Topic | |||
| 8 | not give | can | riches = rich | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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