Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 25
Can the channels, which thou commandest to be cut to receive the annual inundations of the Nile, contain the waters of the ocean?
Who acts: thou · What happens: command, cut, receive, contain, inundate · To what, where: channels, annual inundations, waters, Nile · 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), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 channels | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 channels | det |
| 3 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commandest | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 commandest | obj |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 commandest | nsubj |
| 7 | commandest | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 channels | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cut | aux:pass |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 commandest | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 receive | mark |
| 12 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cut | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inundations | det |
| 14 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inundations | amod |
| 15 | inundations | inundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 receive | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Nile | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Nile | det |
| 18 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 inundations | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 contain | punct |
| 20 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 commandest | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waters | det |
| 22 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 contain | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ocean | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ocean | det |
| 25 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waters | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 channels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present | thou | the channels | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cut not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | thou not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the annual inundations of the Nile | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inundation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contain | present | thou not said here | the waters of the ocean | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | ||||
| 6 | inundate | the Nile | nom inundation «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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