Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 37
That they cannot bestow fortitude or magnanimity, that man may be certain, who stood trembling at Astracan before a being not naturally superior to himself.
Who acts: That, man · What happens: not bestow, be, stand, tremble, not be · To what, where: fortitude, Astracan, man
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, man), 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 bestow | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bestow | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bestow | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bestow | advmod |
| 5 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fortitude | fortitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bestow | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 magnanimity | cc |
| 8 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fortitude | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 certain | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 certain | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 certain | cop |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortitude | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | conj |
| 18 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stood | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Astracan | case |
| 20 | Astracan | Astracan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 trembling | obl |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 superior | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 superior | det |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 superior | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 superior | advmod |
| 25 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 26 superior | advmod |
| 26 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trembling | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 himself | case |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 superior | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bestow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bestow | can | That | fortitude or magnanimity | riches = rich nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | may | that man | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | Astracan | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at astracan=Location | |||||
| 5 | not is | gerund | man | naturally, superior 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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