Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 21
“Cast away the dagger,” replied the heavenly messenger, “which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart.
Who acts: heavenly messenger · What happens: cast away, reply, prepare, plunge · To what, where: dagger, own heart · 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 (heavenly messenger), 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 Cast | punct |
| 2 | Cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Cast | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dagger | det |
| 5 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cast | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cast | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cast | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 messenger | det |
| 10 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 messenger | amod |
| 11 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wast | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wast | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wast | nsubj |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 wast | nsubj |
| 16 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 wast | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 plunge | mark |
| 19 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 preparing | xcomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 21 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 heart | amod |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plunge | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast away in a quote | infinitive | the dagger | away property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Product | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the heavenly messenger | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | gerund | the heavenly messenger not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | plunge not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the heavenly messenger not said here | thine own heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_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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