Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 36
That they do not confer wisdom, thou mayest be convinced by considering at how dear a price they tempted thee, upon thy first entrance into the world, to purchase the empty sound of vulgar acclamation.
Who acts: That, riches · What happens: not confer, convince, consider, tempt, purchase · To what, where: wisdom, thou, dear price, thee, empty sound
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 (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 confer | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 confer | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 confer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 confer | advmod |
| 5 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 convinced | punct |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 convinced | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 convinced | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 convinced | aux:pass |
| 11 | convinced | convince | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 confer | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 considering | mark |
| 13 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 convinced | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 price | case |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 dear | advmod |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 price | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 price | det |
| 18 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considering | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tempted | nsubj |
| 20 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 price | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 tempted | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entrance | punct |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 entrance | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 entrance | amod |
| 26 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convinced | obl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entrance | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 purchase | punct |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 purchase | mark |
| 32 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confer | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sound | det |
| 34 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sound | amod |
| 35 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 purchase | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 acclamation | case |
| 37 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 acclamation | amod |
| 38 | acclamation | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sound | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confer | present · do-support | That | wisdom | riches = rich nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | convince | may · passive | thou | upon thy first entrance into the world | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | consider | gerund | a dear price | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tempt | past | riches = rich | thee | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | purchase | to-infinitive | That not said here | the empty sound of vulgar acclamation | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Theme |
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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