Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 4
“My name,” replied the stranger, “is Hassan, and I am a native of this city: the Angel of adversity has laid his hand upon me; and the wretch whom thine eye compassionates, thou canst not deliver.”
Who acts: name, eye, wretch, My · What happens: reply, be, lay, compassionate, not deliver, name · To what, where: stranger, Hassan, native, Angel, wretch · 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 (name, eye, wretch, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hassan | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hassan | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Hassan | cop |
| 12 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stranger | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 native | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 native | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 native | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 native | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 native | det |
| 18 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 native | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Angel | det |
| 24 | Angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 adversity | case |
| 26 | adversity | adversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Angel | nmod |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 laid | aux |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obj |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 deliver | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 deliver | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wretch | det |
| 36 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 deliver | nsubj |
| 37 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 compassionates | obj |
| 38 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 eye | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 compassionates | nsubj |
| 40 | compassionates | compassionate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wretch | punct |
| 42 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 deliver | nsubj |
| 43 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 45 deliver | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 deliver | advmod |
| 45 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 deliver | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My name | the stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Hassan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | My name = name | a native | of this city | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lay in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Angel of adversity | upon My name = name; Angel's hand obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme hand=Destination | ||||
| 5 | compassionate in a quote | present | thine eye | the wretch | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not deliver in a quote | can | the wretch | thou nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication 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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