Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 39
“Thou art but an ungrateful wretch,” said he to him: “Dost thou imagine that thou canst impose upon me?
Who acts: ungrateful wretch, thou · What happens: say, do, imagine, impose · To what, where: Abdallah, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ungrateful wretch, thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wretch | det |
| 6 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wretch | amod |
| 7 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wretch | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wretch | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 art | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dost | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dost | punct |
| 16 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 Dost | obj |
| 18 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Dost | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 impose | mark |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 impose | nsubj |
| 21 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 impose | aux |
| 22 | impose | impose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 imagine | ccomp |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 impose | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | a ungrateful wretch | Abdallah | wretch nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | imagine in a quote | infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | impose in a quote | can | thou | upon a ungrateful wretch = wretch | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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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