Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 33
Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not at least turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure.
Who acts: heart, vigilance, we · What happens: soften, subside, be, inquire, not make, not turn · To what, where: advance, eyes, least
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 (heart, vigilance, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 softens | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 softens | nsubj |
| 4 | softens | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 subsides | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 subsides | cc |
| 7 | vigilance | vigilance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subsides | nsubj |
| 8 | subsides | subside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 softens | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 willing | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 willing | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 willing | cop |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 willing | advmod |
| 13 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 softens | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 inquire | mark |
| 15 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 willing | xcomp |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 advance | det |
| 18 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 made | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 inquire | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turn | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turn | cc |
| 25 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 may | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 may | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 turn | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 turn | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 least | case |
| 30 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 turn | obl |
| 31 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 willing | conj |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 turn | obj |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 gardens | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gardens | det |
| 36 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 turn | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 pleasure | case |
| 38 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gardens | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 softens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | present | the heart | here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | subside | present | vigilance | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | we | then | willing property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not make | can · passive | another advance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | not turn | may | we not said here | our eyes | least | upon the gardens of pleasure | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at least=Source upon garden=Trajectory |
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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