Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 5
“To deliver thee,” said Omar, “belongs to Him only, from whom we should receive with humility both good and evil; yet hide not thy life from me; for the burthen which I cannot remove, I may at least enable thee to sustain.”
Who acts: Omar, we · What happens: deliver, say, belong, receive, not hide, not remove · To what, where: thee, Omar, life, burthen · 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 (Omar, we), 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 deliver | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 deliver | mark |
| 3 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 deliver | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 11 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Him | case |
| 13 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belongs | obl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 belongs | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receive | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 receive | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 receive | aux |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 belongs | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 humility | case |
| 22 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obl |
| 23 | both | both | ADV | _ | 24 good | advmod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 humility | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 evil | cc |
| 26 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 good | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 hide | punct |
| 28 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 29 hide | cc |
| 29 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 hide | advmod |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hide | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 hide | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 burthen | punct |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 burthen | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 burthen | det |
| 38 | burthen | burthen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 remove | obj |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 remove | nsubj |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 remove | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 remove | advmod |
| 43 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 burthen | acl:relcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 remove | punct |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 enable | nsubj |
| 46 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 enable | aux |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 least | case |
| 48 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 49 enable | obl |
| 49 | enable | enable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 remove | parataxis |
| 50 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 remove | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 sustain | mark |
| 52 | sustain | sustain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 remove | advcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 burthen | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 burthen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver in a quote | to-infinitive | thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Omar | the burthen parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | Omar | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | receive in a quote | should | we | with humility; whom obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from whom=Source | ||||
| 5 | not hide in a quote | present | Omar not said here | thy life | from Omar | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent life=Patient from i=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | not remove in a quote | can | Omar | the burthen | thee obl:unmarked | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 7 | sustain in a quote | to-infinitive | Omar not said here | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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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