Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 40
I am not ignorant of any one of thy thoughts; and if thou hadst known the value of this candlestick, thou would never have brought it to me: I will make thee sensible of its true use.”
Who acts: I, thy, candlestick · What happens: not be, know, not bring, make, think, value · To what, where: thou, me, thee, candlestick
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 (I, thy, candlestick), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ignorant | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ignorant | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ignorant | advmod |
| 4 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ignorant | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thoughts | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 known | mark |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | hadst | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 brought | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 value | det |
| 18 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 candlestick | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 candlestick | det |
| 21 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 value | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 brought | advmod |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 brought | aux |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ignorant | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ignorant | conj |
| 35 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 use | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 use | nmod:poss |
| 39 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 use | amod |
| 40 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sensible | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ignorant | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ignorant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | of any one of thy thoughts; ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | thou | the value of this candlestick obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not bring | would · perfect · passive | thou | me | value obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | future | I | thee | sensible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product | |||
| 5 | think | thy | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | value | this candlestick | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | use | candlestick | nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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