Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 14
Why was not I suffered to be a witness of so much felicity and power?”
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: witness
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 (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 suffered | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffered | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suffered | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suffered | nsubj |
| 5 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 witness | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 witness | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witness | det |
| 9 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffered | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 felicity | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felicity | amod |
| 13 | felicity | felicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 witness | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 power | cc |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felicity | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 power | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 felicity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | I | suffer property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | a witness | of much felicity and power | tree rules |
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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