Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 6
He, whom ye pretend reigns in heaven, is so far from protecting the sons of men, that he perpetually delights to blast the sweetest flowerets in the garden of Hope; and like a malignant giant to beat down the strongest towers of happiness with the iron mace of his anger.
Who acts: ye, God · What happens: reign, protect, be, delight, blast, beat down · To what, where: heaven, sons, sweetest flowerets, garden, strongest towers
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 (ye, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sons | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reigns | punct |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 reigns | advmod |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 reigns | nsubj |
| 5 | pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reigns | amod |
| 6 | reigns | reign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 He | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reigns | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 He | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sons | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sons | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 protecting | mark |
| 14 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 far | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sons | det |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sons | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 delights | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 delights | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 delights | nsubj |
| 22 | perpetually | perpetually | ADV | _ | 23 delights | advmod |
| 23 | delights | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sons | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 blast | mark |
| 25 | blast | blast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 delights | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flowerets | det |
| 27 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 flowerets | amod |
| 28 | flowerets | floweret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blast | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 garden | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blast | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Hope | case |
| 33 | Hope | Hope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 garden | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 giant | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 giant | cc |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 giant | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 giant | det |
| 38 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 giant | amod |
| 39 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 delights | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 beat | mark |
| 41 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 giant | acl |
| 42 | down | down | ADP | _ | 41 beat | compound:prt |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 towers | det |
| 44 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 towers | amod |
| 45 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 beat | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 happiness | case |
| 47 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 towers | nmod |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 mace | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 mace | det |
| 50 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 mace | amod |
| 51 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 happiness | nmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 anger | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 anger | nmod:poss |
| 54 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 mace | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | ye | heaven | whom advmod | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | gerund | God not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | God | the sons | of men; far property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | delight | present | God | a malignant giant parataxis; perpetually property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blast | to-infinitive | God not said here | the sweetest flowerets | the garden of Hope | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location floweret=Theme | |||
| 6 | beat down | to-infinitive | God not said here | the strongest towers of happiness with the iron mace of God's anger | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tower=Theme | ||||
| 7 | anger | God | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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