Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 23
O! let not thy heart despise me, thou whom experience hast not taught, that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess.
Who acts: you, heart, thou, command · What happens: let, not despise, experience, have, not teach, be · To what, where: me, misery, happiness
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 (you, heart, thou, command), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 let | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 O | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 despise | advmod |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 despise | nsubj |
| 7 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 despise | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 experience | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 experience | nsubj |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 experience | obj |
| 12 | experience | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 13 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 experience | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 taught | advmod |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 experience | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 misery | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 misery | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 misery | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 misery | cop |
| 20 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taught | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lose | mark |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 misery | acl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 happiness | mark |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 happiness | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 happiness | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 happiness | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 happiness | advmod |
| 28 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 possess | mark |
| 30 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 happiness | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not despise | infinitive | thy heart | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | experience | present | thou | whom obj | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thou not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not teach speech: other | participle | thou not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | command | misery | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | lose | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | not is a | present | happiness | which nsubj; command nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | possess | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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