Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 23
To whom the other answered, “Brother, let us forget those things; I heartily forgive you all that is past; you need not range up and down the world; you shall be welcome to live with me.”
Who acts: other, us, you · What happens: answer, let, forget, forgive, be, not range up · To what, where: us, things, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, us, you), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 answered | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brother | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brother | punct |
| 8 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forget | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 forgive | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 forgive | nsubj |
| 17 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 18 forgive | advmod |
| 18 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 forgive | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 forgive | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 past | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 past | cop |
| 23 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 range | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 range | nsubj |
| 26 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 range | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 range | advmod |
| 28 | range | range | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 range | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 world | cc |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 range | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 welcome | punct |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 welcome | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 welcome | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 welcome | cop |
| 38 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 live | mark |
| 40 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 welcome | advcl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 live | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 welcome | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the other | Brother vocative; whom obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the other not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | that things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forgive in a quote | present | the other = other | you | heartily property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | past property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not range up in a quote | present | you | the world conj | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | shall | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | with the other = other | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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