Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 24
O! that for me, this lesson had not been written on the tablets of Providence!
What happens: not write · To what, where: lesson, tablets
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: 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 that | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lesson | det |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 that | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lesson | det |
| 8 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 written | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tablets | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tablets | det |
| 15 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 written | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Providence | case |
| 17 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tablets | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | past · perfect · passive | that lesson | the tablets of Providence | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on tablet=Destination |
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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