Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 19

By the bow-string, I can repress violence and fraud; and by the delegation of my power, I can transfer the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another; but with respect to virtue, I am impotent: if I could reward it, I would reward it in thee.

Who acts: I, avarice · What happens: repress, transfer, be, reward, wish · To what, where: violence, insatiable wishes, impotent, life, thee

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, avarice), 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	By	by	ADP	_	5 string	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 bow	punct
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repress	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 string	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 repress	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 repress	aux
9	repress	repress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repress	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fraud	cc
12	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 violence	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 transfer	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 transfer	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 delegation	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 delegation	det
17	delegation	delegation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 transfer	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 power	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 power	nmod:poss
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 delegation	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 delegation	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 transfer	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 transfer	aux
24	transfer	transfer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 repress	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wishes	det
26	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wishes	amod
27	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 transfer	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 avarice	case
29	avarice	avarice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wishes	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ambition	cc
31	ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wishes	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 object	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 object	nummod
34	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ambition	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 another	case
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 object	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 impotent	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 impotent	cc
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 respect	case
40	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 impotent	obl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 virtue	case
42	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 respect	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 respect	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 impotent	nsubj
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 impotent	cop
46	impotent	impotent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repress	obl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 reward	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 reward	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 reward	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 reward	aux
51	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 repress	parataxis
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 reward	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 reward	punct
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 reward	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 reward	aux
56	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 reward	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 reward	obj
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 thee	case
59	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 reward	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 repress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repress	can	I	violence and fraud		by the bow string	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent violence=Patient by string=Location
2	transfer	can	I	the insatiable wishes of avarice and ambition from one object to another		by the delegation of my power	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
3	is a	present	I	impotent		with respect to virtue	tree rules
4	reward a condition, not said to happen	could	I	life			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	reward	would	I	life	thee		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	wish		avarice				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 19

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 19