Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 16
I then started up, and was about to prostrate myself before him, but he prevented me: “Hassan,” said he, “forbear; thou art greater than I, and from thee I have at once derived humility and wisdom.”
Who acts: I, Almalic, Hassan · What happens: start up, be, prostrate, prevent, say, have · To what, where: myself, me, forbear, thee, humility · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Almalic, Hassan), 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 started | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 about | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 started | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prostrate | mark |
| 10 | prostrate | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 about | xcomp |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 prostrate | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prostrate | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prevented | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prevented | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prevented | nsubj |
| 17 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 prevented | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hassan | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hassan | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | parataxis |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forbear | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 forbear | punct |
| 28 | forbear | forbear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 art | punct |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 art | nsubj |
| 31 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 32 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 art | xcomp |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 I | case |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 greater | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 have | cc |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 thee | case |
| 38 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 have | obl |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 art | conj |
| 41 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 43 derived | mark |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 derived | advmod |
| 43 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | ccomp |
| 44 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 derived | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wisdom | cc |
| 46 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 humility | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | I | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prostrate | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | before Almalic | tree rules | |||
| 4 | prevent | past | Almalic | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Hassan | forbear | Almalic nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | Hassan | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | derive in a quote | past | Hassan not said here | humility and wisdom | once property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location humility=Theme |
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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