Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 37
We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Who acts: We, darkness, disease · What happens: entangle, immerge, reeve, begin, invade, obstruct · To what, where: ourselves, luxury, labyrinths, us, way
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, darkness, disease), 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 | 2 entangle | nsubj |
| 2 | entangle | entangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 entangle | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 business | case |
| 5 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entangle | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 immerge | punct |
| 7 | immerge | immerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 entangle | conj |
| 8 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 immerge | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 luxury | case |
| 10 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 immerge | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rove | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rove | cc |
| 13 | rove | reeve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entangle | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 labyrinths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 labyrinths | det |
| 16 | labyrinths | labyrinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rove | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 inconstancy | case |
| 18 | inconstancy | inconstancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 labyrinths | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 darkness | punct |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 darkness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 darkness | det |
| 22 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rove | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 age | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 age | amod |
| 25 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 begins | obl |
| 26 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 darkness | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 invade | mark |
| 28 | invade | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 begins | xcomp |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 invade | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 obstruct | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 obstruct | cc |
| 32 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 obstruct | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 anxiety | cc |
| 34 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 disease | conj |
| 35 | obstruct | obstruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 entangle | conj |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 obstruct | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entangle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entangle | present | We | ourselves | in business | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Destination in business=Theme | |||
| 2 | immerge | infinitive | We not said here | ourselves | luxury | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reeve | past | We not said here | the labyrinths of inconstancy | till the darkness | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | begin | present | the darkness not said here | of old age | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | invade | to-infinitive | the darkness not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obstruct | present | disease and anxiety | our way | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=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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