Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 39
That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.
Who acts: That, thou, thy · What happens: purchase, do, discover, leave, stand, try · To what, where: friends, trial
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, thou, thy), 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 | 4 purchase | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 purchase | nsubj |
| 3 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 4 purchase | advmod |
| 4 | purchase | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 purchase | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 didst | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 didst | nsubj |
| 8 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 purchase | ccomp |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 discover | advmod |
| 10 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 didst | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wert | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 wert | advmod |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 wert | nsubj |
| 14 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 didst | conj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wert | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stand | mark |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | xcomp |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 trial | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stand | obj |
| 20 | uncountenanced | uncountenanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stand | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 alone | cc |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 uncountenanced | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 purchase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | present | That | friends | riches = rich nsubj; rarely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | discover | present | thou not said here | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | thou not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thy trial | uncountenanced property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trial=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | try | thy | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=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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