Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20
Thou art content, and hast therefore neither avarice nor ambition: to exalt thee, would destroy the simplicity of thy life, and diminish that happiness which I have no power either to increase or continue.”
Who acts: I, happiness · What happens: have, exalt, destroy, diminish, increase, continue · To what, where: avarice, thee, simplicity, happiness
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, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 art | nsubj |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 art | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hast | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hast | cc |
| 6 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 art | parataxis |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 avarice | advmod |
| 8 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 avarice | det |
| 9 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hast | obj |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 ambition | cc |
| 11 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avarice | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 exalt | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 exalt | mark |
| 14 | exalt | exalt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hast | conj |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 exalt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 destroy | punct |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 destroy | aux |
| 18 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 exalt | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 simplicity | det |
| 20 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 destroy | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 simplicity | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 diminish | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 diminish | cc |
| 26 | diminish | diminish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 exalt | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 increase | mark |
| 28 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 increase | nsubj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 have | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 power | det |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 increase | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 increase | mark |
| 36 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 diminish | advcl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 continue | cc |
| 38 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 increase | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 art | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | neither avarice nor ambition | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avarice=Patient | |||||
| 2 | exalt | to-infinitive | thee | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | destroy | would | the simplicity of thy life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simplicity=Patient | |||||
| 4 | diminish | infinitive | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | have | present | I | happiness | no power obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | increase | to-infinitive | happiness | either property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | continue | infinitive | happiness not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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