Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 31

We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.

Who acts: We · What happens: relax, resolve, be, rely, venture, approach · To what, where: vigour

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), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 relax	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 relax	advmod
3	relax	relax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vigour	nmod:poss
5	vigour	vigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 relax	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 resolve	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 resolve	cc
8	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 relax	conj
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 resolve	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 terrified	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 terrified	cop
13	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 resolve	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 crimes	case
15	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 terrified	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 distance	det
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crimes	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rely	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 rely	cc
21	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 relax	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 constancy	case
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 constancy	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 constancy	amod
25	constancy	constancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rely	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 venture	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 venture	cc
28	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 relax	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 approach	mark
30	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 venture	xcomp
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 approach	obj
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 resolve	nsubj
33	resolve	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 touch	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 touch	mark
36	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 resolve	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 relax	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	relax	present	We	our vigour	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vigour=Experiencer
2	resolve	infinitive	We not said here			long property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	We not said here			with crimes at a distance; terrified property	tree rules
4	rely	present	We not said here			upon our own constancy	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	venture	infinitive	We not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	approach	to-infinitive	We not said here			what obj	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	resolve	present	we				tree rules
8	not touch	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 31

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 31