Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 12

I am now fourscore years old, but still a child in wisdom; take me back to the world, and educate me as one of the most ignorant, and youngest, of thy disciples.”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, take, educate · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Mencius.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 old	advmod
4	fourscore	fourscore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 child	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 child	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	11 child	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 wisdom	case
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 child	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 educate	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 educate	cc
23	educate	educate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 take	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 educate	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 educate	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 ignorant	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ignorant	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 ignorant	advmod
30	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 youngest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 youngest	cc
33	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 take	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 disciples	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 disciples	case
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 disciples	nmod:poss
37	disciples	disciple	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 youngest	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		now; year	a child in wisdom conj; old property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive		me			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	educate speech: other	infinitive		me		as one of the ignorant	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 12