Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 26
Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred on a creature; for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity.”
Who acts: you · What happens: remember, not confer, be · To what, where: perfect happiness, creature, attribute · 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 (you), 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 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 conferred | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 happiness | det |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happiness | amod |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conferred | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 conferred | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 conferred | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 conferred | aux:pass |
| 9 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Remember | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 creature | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conferred | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 attribute | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 happiness | case |
| 15 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 happiness | amod |
| 16 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attribute | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 attribute | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 attribute | det |
| 19 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remember | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 incommunicable | case |
| 21 | incommunicable | incommunicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 attribute | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 power | amod |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 incommunicable | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 eternity | cc |
| 26 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 power | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not confer | can · passive | that perfect happiness | a creature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a attribute | for perfect happiness; as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity | 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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