Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 3
If you will trust him to my care, I will endeavour to acknowledge, in his person, the obligations I have to you for your care of me.”
Who acts: you, I, my, me · What happens: trust, endeavour, acknowledge, have, care · To what, where: Dervise, care, person, you
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 (you, I, my, me), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 trust | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trust | aux |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 endeavour | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 care | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 care | nmod:poss |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 endeavour | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 endeavour | aux |
| 12 | endeavour | endeavour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 acknowledge | mark |
| 14 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 endeavour | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 person | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 person | nmod:poss |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acknowledge | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obligations | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 obligations | det |
| 21 | obligations | obligation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 person | appos |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 person | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 care | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 care | nmod:poss |
| 28 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acknowledge | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 care | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 endeavour | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 endeavour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust a condition, not said to happen | future | you | Dervise | my care | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to care=Recipient | |||
| 2 | endeavour | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | acknowledge | to-infinitive | I not said here | Dervise's person | for your care of me | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | present | I | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | care | my | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | care | me | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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