Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 56
It is Abounadar who is ungrateful: what wrong shall I do him in taking this candlestick?
Who acts: candlestick, I · What happens: be, do, take · To what, where: Abounadar, 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 (candlestick, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ungrateful | cop |
| 3 | Abounadar | Abounadar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ungrateful | cop |
| 6 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 what | amod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ungrateful | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 candlestick | det |
| 17 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ungrateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | candlestick | Abounadar nsubj; who nsubj; ungrateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | Abounadar | what obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | I not said here | this candlestick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candlestick=Theme |
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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