Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 4
Come in: examples of vice may sometimes strengthen us in the ways of virtue.”
Who acts: you, examples · What happens: come in, strengthen, exemplify · To what, where: us, ways, vice
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 (you, examples), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 strengthen | punct |
| 4 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strengthen | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 vice | case |
| 6 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 examples | nmod |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 strengthen | aux |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 strengthen | advmod |
| 9 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 strengthen | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ways | det |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strengthen | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 virtue | case |
| 15 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ways | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | strengthen | may | examples of vice | us | the ways of virtue | sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||
| 3 | exemplify | vice | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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