Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 19
“Happy,” said Caloc, “is he whom Providence has by the angel of death snatched from guilt! from whom that power is withheld, which, if he had possessed, would have accumulated upon himself yet greater misery than it could bring upon others.”
Who acts: Caloc, Providence, power · What happens: say, be, have, snatch, withhold, possess · To what, where: death, guilt, power, Providence, greater misery · 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 (Caloc, Providence, power), 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 | _ | 2 Happy | punct |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Happy | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Happy | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Caloc | Caloc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | cop |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whom | nsubj |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 withheld | obl |
| 12 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 angel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 angel | det |
| 16 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 angel | nmod |
| 19 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 death | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 guilt | case |
| 21 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snatched | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 whom | case |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 withheld | obl |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 power | det |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 withheld | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 withheld | aux:pass |
| 28 | withheld | withhold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 accumulated | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 accumulated | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 which | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 possessed | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 possessed | aux |
| 35 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 accumulated | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 possessed | punct |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 accumulated | aux |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 accumulated | aux |
| 39 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 withheld | conj |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 himself | case |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 accumulated | obl |
| 42 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 43 greater | advmod |
| 43 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 misery | amod |
| 44 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 accumulated | obj |
| 45 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 48 bring | mark |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 bring | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 bring | aux |
| 48 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 accumulated | advcl |
| 49 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 50 others | case |
| 50 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 bring | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 withheld | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 withheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Caloc | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Caloc | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Providence | by the angel of death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | snatch in a quote | participle | death not said here | guilt | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from guilt=Source | ||||
| 5 | withhold in a quote | present · passive | that power | whom obl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | possess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | Providence | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | accumulate in a quote | would · perfect | greater misery | upon Providence; which obj | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bring in a quote | could | power | upon others | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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