Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Hamet and Raschid., sentence 7
You here pray for water, and water I will bestow; let me know with how much you will be satisfied: speak not rashly; consider, that of whatever can be enjoyed by the body, excess is no less dangerous than scarcity.
Who acts: You, water, me, much, body, excess · What happens: pray, bestow, let, know, be, not speak · To what, where: me, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, water, me, much), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pray | advmod |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bestow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bestow | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestow | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bestow | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bestow | aux |
| 11 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 bestow | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 satisfied | mark |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 satisfied | nsubj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 satisfied | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 satisfied | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 satisfied | cop |
| 22 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 know | ccomp |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 speak | punct |
| 24 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | conj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 speak | advmod |
| 26 | rashly | rashly | ADV | _ | 24 speak | advmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 consider | punct |
| 28 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bestow | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 enjoyed | punct |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 whatever | case |
| 32 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 enjoyed | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 enjoyed | aux:pass |
| 35 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 consider | parataxis |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 body | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 body | det |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enjoyed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dangerous | punct |
| 40 | excess | excess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dangerous | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 dangerous | cop |
| 42 | no | no | ADV | _ | 43 less | advmod |
| 43 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 dangerous | advmod |
| 44 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 enjoyed | conj |
| 45 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 scarcity | case |
| 46 | scarcity | scarcity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dangerous | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | You | here | for water | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for water=Theme | |||
| 2 | bestow | future | water | I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | water not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | me not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | future | much | you nsubj; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not speak speech: other | infinitive | water not said here | rashly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | consider | infinitive | water not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | enjoy | can · passive | the body | that | whatever nsubj:pass | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | is | present | excess | than scarcity; dangerous, less 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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