Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 27
This trifling sum was enough to make his mother and himself subsist tolerably: there was a time when they would have desired no more to be happy; but it was not considerable enough to change their fortune: it is always dangerous for the imagination to be fixed upon the idea of riches.
Who acts: trifling sum, Abdallah, time, sum · What happens: be, make, subsist, desire, not be, change · To what, where: mother, Dervises, fortune
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trifling sum, Abdallah, time, sum), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sum | det |
| 2 | trifling | trifling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sum | compound |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 subsist | cc |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 subsist | nsubj |
| 12 | subsist | subsist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | conj |
| 13 | tolerably | tolerably | ADV | _ | 12 subsist | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 desired | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 desired | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 desired | aux |
| 23 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 desired | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 happy | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 happy | cop |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 more | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 considerable | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 considerable | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 considerable | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 considerable | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 considerable | advmod |
| 34 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 34 considerable | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 change | mark |
| 37 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 considerable | advcl |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 39 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 change | obj |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 dangerous | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 dangerous | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 dangerous | cop |
| 43 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 44 dangerous | advmod |
| 44 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 imagination | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 imagination | det |
| 47 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dangerous | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 fixed | mark |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 fixed | aux:pass |
| 50 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 imagination | acl |
| 51 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 53 idea | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 idea | det |
| 53 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fixed | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 riches | case |
| 55 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 idea | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this trifling sum | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | this trifling sum not said here | Abdallah's mother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mother=Product | ||||
| 3 | subsist | present | Abdallah | tolerably property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | desire | would · perfect · passive | Dervises = dervis | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not is | past | sum | considerable, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | change | to-infinitive | sum not said here | Dervises's fortune | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 9 | is | present | sum | for the imagination; always, dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | fix | to-infinitive · passive | sum not said here | upon the idea of riches | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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