Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 53
Because I had the probity, or rather the folly, to bring it back to him; he profits by my labour, and the danger I have incurred in so long a journey.
Who acts: I, Abdallah · What happens: have, bring back, profit, incur · To what, where: probity, Abdallah, danger, journey
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, Abdallah), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 probity | det |
| 5 | probity | probity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 folly | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 folly | cc |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 folly | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 folly | det |
| 10 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 probity | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 profits | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 profits | nsubj |
| 20 | profits | profit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 labour | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 labour | nmod:poss |
| 23 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 profits | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 incurred | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 incurred | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 danger | det |
| 27 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 incurred | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 incurred | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 incurred | aux |
| 30 | incurred | incur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 profits | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 journey | case |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 journey | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 journey | det |
| 35 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 incurred | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | the probity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent probity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | I not said here | probity | Abdallah | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | profit | present | Abdallah | by my labour | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by labour=Causer | ||||
| 4 | incur | present · perfect · passive | the danger | a journey | I nsubj | tree rules |
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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