Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 4

“Can that God be benevolent,” he cried, “who thus wounds the soul, as from an ambush, with unexpected sorrows, and crushes his creatures in a moment with irremediable calamity?

Who acts: God · What happens: be, cry, wound, crush · To what, where: soul, creatures · 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 (God), 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	_	6 benevolent	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 benevolent	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 benevolent	mark
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 benevolent	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 benevolent	cop
6	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 benevolent	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 benevolent	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wounds	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 wounds	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wounds	nsubj
14	thus	thus	ADV	_	15 wounds	advmod
15	wounds	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soul	det
17	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wounds	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ambush	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 ambush	case
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 ambush	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ambush	det
22	ambush	ambush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wounds	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sorrows	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 sorrows	case
25	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sorrows	amod
26	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ambush	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crushes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crushes	cc
29	crushes	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wounds	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 creatures	nmod:poss
31	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crushes	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 moment	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crushes	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 calamity	case
36	irremediable	irremediable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 calamity	amod
37	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 moment	nmod
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	can	God			benevolent property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	God				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wound in a quote	present		the soul		as a ambush and unexpected sorrows; who nsubj; thus property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer
4	crush in a quote	present		God's creatures	moment		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 4