Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 12
“Thou canst not grasp an unsubstantial vision,” replied the angel: “I have now shewn thee what would have been the destiny of thy son, had he continued longer on the earth.”
Who acts: Thou, angel, son · What happens: not grasp, reply, shew, be, have, continue · To what, where: unsubstantial vision, thee, destiny, earth · 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 (Thou, angel, son), 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 | _ | 5 grasp | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 grasp | nsubj |
| 3 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 grasp | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grasp | advmod |
| 5 | grasp | grasp | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vision | det |
| 7 | unsubstantial | unsubstantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vision | amod |
| 8 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grasp | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grasp | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grasp | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 angel | det |
| 13 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 shewn | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 shewn | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shewn | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shewn | aux |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 shewn | advmod |
| 19 | shewn | shew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | conj |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 shewn | obj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 destiny | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 destiny | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 destiny | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 destiny | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 destiny | det |
| 26 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shewn | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 son | case |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 destiny | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 continued | nsubj |
| 33 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | ccomp |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 continued | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 earth | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 earth | det |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 continued | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grasp in a quote | can | Thou | a unsubstantial vision | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the angel | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shew in a quote | present · perfect | the angel = angel | thee | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | would · perfect | the destiny | of thy son; what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | the angel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | continue in a quote | past | son | the earth | 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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