Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 6
I am come to offer you gifts, which only your own folly can make vain.
Who acts: I, own folly · What happens: come, offer, make · To what, where: gifts, you
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, own folly), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 offer | mark |
| 5 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 offer | iobj |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 make | obj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 folly | advmod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 folly | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folly | amod |
| 13 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gifts | acl:relcl |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | gifts | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal gift=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | can | your own folly | gifts | vain property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
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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