Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20

I remembered these enjoyments with regret; and while I was sighing in the midst of superfluities, which though they encumbered life, yet I could not give up, they were suddenly taken away.

Who acts: I, enjoyments · What happens: remember, sigh, encumber, not give up, take away · To what, where: enjoyments, superfluities

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, enjoyments), 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	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 enjoyments	det
4	enjoyments	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remembered	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 regret	case
6	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enjoyments	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sighing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sighing	cc
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sighing	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sighing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sighing	aux
12	sighing	sigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 remembered	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 midst	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 midst	det
15	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sighing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 superfluities	case
17	superfluities	superfluity	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 midst	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 encumbered	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 encumbered	obj
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 encumbered	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 encumbered	nsubj
22	encumbered	encumber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 superfluities	acl:relcl
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 encumbered	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 give	advmod
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 give	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taken	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taken	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 taken	aux:pass
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	35 taken	advmod
35	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 give	advcl
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 taken	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	I	this enjoyments	with regret	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Theme
2	sigh	past · progressive	I		in the midst of superfluities	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in midst=Theme
3	encumber	past	enjoyments = enjoyment	superfluities	life obj	tree rules
4	not give up	could	I			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take away	past · passive		enjoyments = enjoyment	away, suddenly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20

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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 20