Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 12
“Hassan,” said he, “I perceive, not with indignation but regret, that I mistook thy character; I now discover avarice and ambition in thy heart, which lay torpid only because their objects were too remote to rouse them.
Who acts: Hassan, heart, objects · What happens: say, perceive, mistake, discover, lie, be · To what, where: that, avarice, heart, objects · 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 (Hassan, heart, objects), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hassan | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hassan | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 perceive | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 perceive | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 perceive | nsubj |
| 10 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 indignation | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 indignation | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 indignation | case |
| 14 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perceive | obl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 regret | cc |
| 16 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 indignation | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mistook | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 mistook | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 mistook | nsubj |
| 20 | mistook | mistake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 indignation | conj |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 character | nmod:poss |
| 22 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mistook | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 discover | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 discover | nsubj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 discover | advmod |
| 26 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 discover | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ambition | cc |
| 29 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 avarice | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 heart | case |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 heart | nmod:poss |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 discover | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lay | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 lay | nsubj |
| 35 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 heart | acl:relcl |
| 36 | torpid | torpid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lay | xcomp |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 remote | advmod |
| 38 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 43 remote | mark |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 objects | nmod:poss |
| 40 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 remote | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 remote | cop |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 remote | advmod |
| 43 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 discover | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 rouse | mark |
| 45 | rouse | rouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 remote | advcl |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 rouse | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hassan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | perceive in a quote | present | Hassan | with indignation but regret | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mistake in a quote | past | Hassan | that | thy character obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | discover in a quote | present | Hassan | avarice and ambition | thy heart | now | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avarice=Topic | ||
| 5 | lie in a quote | past | thy heart | torpid property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | avarice's objects | remote property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rouse in a quote | to-infinitive | avarice's objects not said here | objects = object | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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