Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 8
Happy is he whom distress has taught wisdom!
What happens: be · To what, where: wealth, Happy taught wisdom
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: 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wisdom | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taught | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taught | aux |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wisdom | amod |
| 8 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 wisdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect · passive | wealth | Happy taught wisdom nsubj:pass; distress nsubj:pass; teach property | 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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