Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 36

By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire.

Who acts: we, our · What happens: let, fall, quit, remember, intend · To what, where: remembrance, only adequate object, original intention

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, our), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 degrees	case
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 remembrance	det
7	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 intention	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 intention	nmod:poss
10	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 intention	amod
11	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remembrance	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quit	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 quit	cc
14	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 object	det
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 object	amod
17	adequate	adequate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 object	amod
18	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quit	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 desire	case
20	rational	rational	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 desire	amod
21	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 object	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	we		by degrees	tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	we not said here	the remembrance of our original intention		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient remembrance=Result
3	quit	past	we not said here	the only adequate object of rational desire		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Source
4	remember			our original intention		nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	intend		our			nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 36