Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 13
I cannot, therefore, invest thee with authority, because I would not subject my people to oppression; and because I would not be compelled to punish thee for crimes which I first enabled thee to commit.
Who acts: I, crimes · What happens: not invest, not subject, not compel, punish, enable, commit · To what, where: thee, people, I, crimes
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, crimes), 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 | 7 invest | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 invest | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 invest | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 invest | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | invest | invest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 invest | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 authority | case |
| 10 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 subject | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 subject | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 subject | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 subject | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 subject | advmod |
| 16 | subject | subject | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 invest | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subject | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 oppression | case |
| 20 | oppression | oppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 subject | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 compelled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 compelled | cc |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 compelled | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 compelled | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 compelled | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 compelled | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 compelled | aux:pass |
| 28 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 invest | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 punish | mark |
| 30 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 compelled | xcomp |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 punish | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 crimes | case |
| 33 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 punish | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 enabled | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 enabled | nsubj |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 enabled | advmod |
| 37 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 crimes | acl:relcl |
| 38 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 enabled | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 commit | mark |
| 40 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 enabled | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invest | can | I | thee | with authority; therefore property | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient with authority=Theme | |||
| 2 | not subject | would | I | my people | to oppression | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not compel | would · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | punish | to-infinitive | thee | for crimes | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=Patient for crime=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enable | past | I | crimes | thee obj; first property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | commit | to-infinitive | crimes not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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