Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 21
Almalic, in the midst of the glory of his kingdom, and in the full vigour of his life, expired suddenly in the bath; such, thou knowest, was the destiny which the Almighty had written upon his head.
Who acts: thou, Almalic, kingdom · What happens: expire, know, be, write, glory · To what, where: full vigour, bath, such, destiny, Almighty
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 (thou, Almalic, kingdom), 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 | Almalic | Almalic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 destiny | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 midst | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Almalic | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 glory | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glory | det |
| 8 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glory | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vigour | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vigour | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 vigour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vigour | det |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vigour | amod |
| 17 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vigour | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 expired | punct |
| 22 | expired | expire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 vigour | acl |
| 23 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 22 expired | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bath | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bath | det |
| 26 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 expired | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 knowest | punct |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 31 knowest | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 such | punct |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 knowest | nsubj |
| 31 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 vigour | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Almalic | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 destiny | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 destiny | det |
| 35 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 written | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Almighty | det |
| 38 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 written | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 written | aux |
| 40 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 destiny | acl:relcl |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 head | nmod:poss |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 written | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 destiny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expire | participle | the full vigour of Almalic's life not said here | the bath | suddenly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | present | thou | such | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Almalic | the destiny | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write | past · perfect · passive | the Almighty | upon Almalic's head; the destiny obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient which=Topic | ||||
| 5 | glory | Almalic's kingdom | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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