Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 25
I have travelled from Medina to Mecca: but I cannot fly from myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: travell, not fly · To what, where: Mecca, Medina
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), 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 | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | aux |
| 3 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Medina | case |
| 5 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Mecca | case |
| 7 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 fly | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fly | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fly | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fly | advmod |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travelled | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 myself | case |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 fly | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | present · perfect | I | Mecca | Medina | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not fly | can | I | from myself | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from myself=Trajectory |
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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