Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 2
“Will Heaven permit such injustice to be practised?” exclaimed Bozaldab.
Who acts: Bozaldab · What happens: practise, exclaim · 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 (Bozaldab), 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 | _ | 6 injustice | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 injustice | aux |
| 3 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 permit | compound |
| 4 | permit | permit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 injustice | compound |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 injustice | amod |
| 6 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 practised | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 practised | aux:pass |
| 9 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 injustice | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 practised | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 practised | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Bozaldab | Bozaldab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Bozaldab not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Bozaldab | permit such injustice nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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