Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 12
“Inhabitant of heaven,” cried Bozaldab, “suffer not this wretch to perish by the fury of wild beasts!”
Who acts: Inhabitant · What happens: cry, not suffer, perish, infuriate · To what, where: suffer wretch, wild beasts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inhabitant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inhabitant | punct |
| 2 | Inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 heaven | case |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Inhabitant | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inhabitant | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inhabitant | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Bozaldab | Bozaldab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wretch | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wretch | punct |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wretch | compound |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 suffer | advmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 wretch | det |
| 14 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 perish | mark |
| 16 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wretch | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 fury | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fury | det |
| 19 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perish | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 beasts | case |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beasts | amod |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fury | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 wretch | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Inhabitant of heaven | this suffer wretch | Bozaldab flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not suffer in a quote | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | perish in a quote | to-infinitive | Inhabitant of heaven not said here | this suffer wretch not said here | by the fury of wild beasts | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | infuriate in a quote | wild beasts | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=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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