Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 4
Presume not to direct the Governor of the Universe in his disposal of events.
Who acts: you · What happens: presume, not direct · To what, where: Governor, disposal
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 | Presume | presume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 direct | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 direct | mark |
| 4 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Presume | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Governor | det |
| 6 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 direct | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Universe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Universe | det |
| 9 | Universe | Universe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Governor | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 disposal | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 disposal | nmod:poss |
| 12 | disposal | disposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 direct | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 events | case |
| 14 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 disposal | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | presume | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not direct | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Governor of the Universe | merchant's disposal of events | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent governor=Theme in disposal=Eventuality |
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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