Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 7
If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flattering priests have invested him, he would doubtless be inclined and enabled to banish those evils which render the world a dungeon of distress, a vale of vanity and woe.—I will continue in it no longer!”
Who acts: evils, I · What happens: possess, invest, incline, enable, banish, render · To what, where: this, flattering priests, God, evils, world, woe
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 (evils, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 possessed | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 possessed | aux:pass |
| 4 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 inclined | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goodness | det |
| 6 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possessed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 power | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goodness | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 invested | obl |
| 12 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 priests | amod |
| 13 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 invested | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 invested | aux |
| 15 | invested | invest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 power | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 invested | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 possessed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 inclined | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 inclined | aux |
| 20 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 inclined | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 inclined | aux:pass |
| 22 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 enabled | cc |
| 24 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 inclined | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 banish | mark |
| 26 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 enabled | xcomp |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 evils | det |
| 28 | evils | evil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 banish | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 render | nsubj |
| 30 | render | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 evils | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 render | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 dungeon | det |
| 34 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 render | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 distress | case |
| 36 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dungeon | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 vale | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 vale | det |
| 39 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 evils | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 vanity | case |
| 41 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 vale | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 woe | cc |
| 43 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 vanity | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 evils | punct |
| 45 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 continue | punct |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 continue | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 continue | aux |
| 48 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 inclined | parataxis |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 continue | obl |
| 51 | no | no | ADV | _ | 52 longer | advmod |
| 52 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 continue | advmod |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 48 continue | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess a condition, not said to happen | gerund · passive | this | the goodness and the power obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invest | present · perfect · passive | flattering priests | with the power; God obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset he=Goal | ||||
| 3 | incline | would · passive | God | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | enable | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | banish | to-infinitive | that evils and a vale of vanity and woe | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | |||||
| 6 | render | present | that evils and a vale of vanity and woe | the world | a dungeon of distress obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient dungeon=Theme | |||
| 7 | continue | future | I | woe | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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