Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 5
After a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea, Mencius could not repress his curiosity to know why the hermit had retired from mankind, whose actions taught the truest lessons of wisdom.
Who acts: frugal meal, Mencius, actions · What happens: consist, not repress, know, retire, teach · To what, where: curiosity, hermit, mankind, truest lessons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (frugal meal, Mencius, actions), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 meal | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 meal | det |
| 3 | frugal | frugal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meal | amod |
| 4 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 repress | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consisted | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 consisted | nsubj |
| 7 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 meal | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 consisted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tea | cc |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roots | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meal | punct |
| 13 | Mencius | Mencius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 repress | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 repress | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 repress | advmod |
| 16 | repress | repress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 18 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 repress | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 repress | advcl |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 retired | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hermit | det |
| 23 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 retired | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 retired | aux |
| 25 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 know | ccomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 mankind | case |
| 27 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 retired | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 taught | punct |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 actions | nmod:poss |
| 30 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 taught | nsubj |
| 31 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mankind | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lessons | det |
| 33 | truest | true | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 lessons | amod |
| 34 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 taught | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 wisdom | case |
| 36 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lessons | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 repress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | a frugal meal | of roots and tea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not repress | could | Mencius | Mencius's curiosity | after a frugal meal | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient | |||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | Mencius not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | retire | past · perfect · passive | the hermit | mankind | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | past | actions | the truest lessons of wisdom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=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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