Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 10
I am become wretched by the loss of that which I never possessed: thou hast raised wishes which indeed I am not worthy thou shouldst satisfy: but why should it be thought, that he who was happy in obscurity and indigence, would not have been rendered more happy by eminence and wealth?”
Who acts: I, thou, raised wishes, presumption, eminence · What happens: become, wretch, not possess, have, raise, not be · To what, where: loss, raised wishes, obscurity · 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 (I, thou, raised wishes, presumption), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wretched | wretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 become | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 loss | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loss | det |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wretched | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 loss | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 possessed | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 possessed | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 possessed | advmod |
| 13 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 loss | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 hast | punct |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 hast | nsubj |
| 16 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | parataxis |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wishes | amod |
| 18 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hast | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 worthy | nsubj |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 worthy | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 worthy | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 worthy | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 worthy | advmod |
| 24 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wishes | acl |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 satisfy | nsubj |
| 26 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 27 satisfy | aux |
| 27 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 worthy | ccomp |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 thought | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 thought | cc |
| 30 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 thought | advmod |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 thought | aux |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 thought | aux:pass |
| 34 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hast | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 happy | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 happy | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 happy | nsubj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 happy | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 happy | cop |
| 40 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thought | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 obscurity | case |
| 42 | obscurity | obscurity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 happy | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 indigence | cc |
| 44 | indigence | indigence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 obscurity | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 rendered | punct |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 rendered | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 rendered | advmod |
| 48 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 rendered | aux |
| 49 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 rendered | aux:pass |
| 50 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 thought | ccomp |
| 51 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 52 happy | advmod |
| 52 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 rendered | xcomp |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 eminence | case |
| 54 | eminence | eminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 rendered | obl |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 wealth | cc |
| 56 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 eminence | conj |
| 57 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 50 rendered | punct |
| 58 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wretch | participle | I not said here | by the loss of that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not possess | past | I | the loss of that | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thou | raised wishes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not is | present | raised wishes | I nsubj; indeed, worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | satisfy | should | thou | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | should · passive | loss | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is | past | presumption | obscurity and indigence | who nsubj; happy property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | not render | would · perfect · passive | eminence and wealth | happy property | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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