Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 35
But temptation succeeds temptation, and one compliance prepares us for another; we in time lose the happiness of innocence, and solace our disquiet with sensual gratifications.
Who acts: temptation, one compliance, we · What happens: succeed, prepare, lose · To what, where: temptation, us, happiness
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 (temptation, one compliance, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 succeeds | cc |
| 2 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeds | nsubj |
| 3 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeds | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prepares | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prepares | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 compliance | nummod |
| 8 | compliance | compliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prepares | nsubj |
| 9 | prepares | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeds | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 prepares | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 prepares | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lose | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 we | nmod |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeds | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 happiness | det |
| 19 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 innocence | case |
| 21 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happiness | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 solace | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 solace | cc |
| 24 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obl |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 disquiet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | disquiet | disquiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 solace | amod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 gratifications | case |
| 28 | sensual | sensual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gratifications | amod |
| 29 | gratifications | gratification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 disquiet | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present | temptation | temptation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | present | one compliance | us | for another | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent we=Product for another=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | lose | present | we | the happiness of innocence | solace obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality |
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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