Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 42
“This,” said he, “is the proper use to be made of this marvellous candlestick.
Who acts: This · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: proper use · 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 (This), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 use | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 use | det |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 use | amod |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 use | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 candlestick | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 candlestick | det |
| 18 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 candlestick | amod |
| 19 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | Abounadar nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the proper use | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | This not said here | of this marvellous candlestick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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