Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 30
In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end.
Who acts: we, easy · What happens: remit, find, mean, obtain, mitigate · To what, where: fervour, mitigation, same end, duty
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Obidah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, easy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remit | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 remit | nsubj |
| 6 | remit | remit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fervour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fervour | fervour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 endeavour | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 endeavour | cc |
| 11 | endeavour | endeavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remit | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 endeavour | acl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 mitigation | det |
| 15 | mitigation | mitigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 duty | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 duty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mitigation | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 means | cc |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 easy | nsubj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 easy | advmod |
| 23 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remit | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 obtaining | mark |
| 26 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 means | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 end | amod |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 obtaining | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remit | present | we | our fervour | time | endeavour conj | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fervour=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | we not said here | some mitigation of our duty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mitigation=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | easy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | obtain | gerund | easy not said here | the same end | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mitigate | our duty | nom mitigation «act 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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