Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 17
I answered, “Mock not thy servant, who is but as a worm before thee; life and death are in thy hand, and happiness and misery are the daughters of thy will.”
Who acts: I, Mock, servant, happiness · What happens: answer, not servant, be · To what, where: hand, daughters · 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, Mock, servant, happiness), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
| 5 | Mock | mock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 servant | advmod |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worm | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 worm | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 worm | cop |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 worm | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 worm | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 worm | det |
| 15 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 thee | case |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 worm | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 death | cc |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 life | conj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hand | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 daughters | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 daughters | cc |
| 28 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 daughters | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 misery | cc |
| 30 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happiness | conj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 daughters | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 daughters | det |
| 33 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hand | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 will | case |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 will | nmod:poss |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 will | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | I | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not servant in a quote | Mock | thy nmod:poss; life and death conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | thy servant but a worm and life and death | before thee | as a worm | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | thy servant but a worm and life and death | thy hand | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | happiness and misery | the daughters | 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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