Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Obidah., sentence 38
We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
Who acts: We · What happens: look back, wish, not forsake · To what, where: ways
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 look | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 lives | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lives | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 horror | case |
| 9 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrow | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sorrow | case |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horror | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repentance | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 repentance | case |
| 15 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horror | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 wish | cc |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 often | advmod |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 wish | advmod |
| 23 | vainly | vainly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wish | amod |
| 24 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wish | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forsaken | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 forsaken | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 forsaken | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 forsaken | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 forsaken | advmod |
| 30 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wish | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ways | det |
| 32 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 forsaken | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 virtue | case |
| 34 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ways | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | present | We | then | upon our lives; with horror and sorrow and repentance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon life=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | present | vainly wish ccomp | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | not forsake | past · perfect | we | the ways of virtue | tree rules |
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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