Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 6
“Mention not the name of man,” cried the hermit with indignation; “here let me live retired from a base ungrateful world; here, in the forest I shall find no flatterers.
Who acts: Mention · What happens: cry, let, live, retire, find, name · To what, where: hermit, Mention, base ungrateful world, flatterers, forest, man · 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 (Mention), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mention | punct |
| 2 | Mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 name | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mention | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mention | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mention | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hermit | det |
| 12 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 indignation | case |
| 14 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 let | advmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 let | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 24 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 world | compound |
| 25 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 retired | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 let | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | conj |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 flatterers | det |
| 37 | flatterers | flatterer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 find | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Mention | the hermit | with indignation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Mention | here; here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | infinitive | Mention not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | retire in a quote | participle | Mention not said here | a base ungrateful world | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | shall | Mention | no flatterers | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flatterer=Topic | |||
| 6 | name in a quote | man | nom name «communication 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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