Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 5
The man whom thou hast pitied shall be taken from this dreary solitude, but not by the method thou wouldst prescribe.
Who acts: thou · What happens: pity, take, not prescribe · To what, where: thou, man, dreary solitude
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pitied | obj |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pitied | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pitied | aux |
| 6 | pitied | pity | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 solitude | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 solitude | det |
| 12 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 solitude | amod |
| 13 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prescribe | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 prescribe | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 prescribe | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 method | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 method | det |
| 19 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prescribe | obl |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 prescribe | nsubj |
| 21 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 prescribe | aux |
| 22 | prescribe | prescribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | present · perfect · passive | thou | the man obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | shall · passive | the man | this dreary solitude | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from solitude=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not prescribe | would | thou | by the method | 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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