Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 8
“You have then been used ill by mankind?” interrupted the philosopher drily.
What happens: use, interrupt · To what, where: You, philosopher
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: 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 | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 used | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 interrupted | advcl |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 used | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mankind | case |
| 9 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ill | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
| 12 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 philosopher | det |
| 14 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interrupted | obj |
| 15 | drily | drily | ADV | _ | 12 interrupted | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | then | ill property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | interrupt | past | the philosopher | drily property | tree rules |
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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