Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 11
I entreat a little brook, which in summer shall never be dry, and in winter never overflow.”
Who acts: I, little brook · What happens: entreat, not be, not overflow · To what, where: little brook
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Hamet and Raschid.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little brook), 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 | 2 entreat | nsubj |
| 2 | entreat | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brook | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brook | amod |
| 5 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entreat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dry | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dry | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 summer | case |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dry | obl |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 dry | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 dry | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dry | cop |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brook | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 overflow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 overflow | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 winter | case |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 overflow | obl |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 overflow | advmod |
| 19 | overflow | overflow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 entreat | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreat | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 entreat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | present | I | a little brook | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is | shall | a little brook | summer | dry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not overflow | infinitive | winter | 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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