Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 24
My health was at length impaired by the inquietude of my mind; I sold all my moveables for subsistence: and reserved only a mattrass, upon which I sometimes lay from one night to another.
Who acts: health, I, my · What happens: be, impair, sell, reserve, lay, mind · To what, where: length, moveables, mattrass
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 (health, I, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 health | nmod:poss |
| 2 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 length | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 length | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 length | case |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | impaired | impair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 length | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 inquietude | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inquietude | det |
| 9 | inquietude | inquietude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impaired | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inquietude | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sold | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sold | nsubj |
| 15 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 length | parataxis |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 moveables | det:predet |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 moveables | nmod:poss |
| 18 | moveables | moveable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sold | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 subsistence | case |
| 20 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moveables | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 reserved | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reserved | cc |
| 23 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sold | parataxis |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 mattrass | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mattrass | det |
| 26 | mattrass | mattrass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reserved | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lay | punct |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 lay | obl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 lay | nsubj |
| 31 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 lay | advmod |
| 32 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reserved | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 night | nummod |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lay | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 another | case |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 lay | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 length | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | My health | length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | impair | participle | length not said here | by the inquietude of my mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sell | past | I | my moveables | for subsistence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent moveable=Theme for subsistence=Asset | |||
| 4 | reserve | past | a mattrass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattrass=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | present | I | night | to another; which obl; sometimes property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon which=Destination | |||
| 6 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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