Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 41
This they will enable thee to perform, and this will afford the only happiness ordained for our present state, the confidence of divine favour, and the hope of future reward.”
Who acts: This, thee, future reward · What happens: enable, perform, afford, ordain, confide, hope · To what, where: thee, only happiness, divine favour
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 (This, thee, future reward), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 enable | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enable | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 enable | aux |
| 4 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 enable | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 perform | mark |
| 7 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enable | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afford | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 afford | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 afford | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 afford | aux |
| 12 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enable | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 happiness | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 happiness | amod |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afford | obj |
| 16 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 happiness | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 state | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 state | nmod:poss |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 state | amod |
| 20 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordained | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 confidence | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 confidence | det |
| 23 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happiness | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 favour | case |
| 25 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 favour | amod |
| 26 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confidence | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hope | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hope | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hope | det |
| 30 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enable | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 reward | case |
| 32 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 reward | amod |
| 33 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hope | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enable | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | future | This | thee | riches = rich nsubj; the hope of future reward parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | thee not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | afford | future | this | the only happiness and the confidence of divine favour | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ordain | participle | the only happiness and the confidence of divine favour not said here | for our present state | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | confide | divine favour | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | hope | future reward | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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