Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 30
The lesson of thy life the Prophet has in mercy appointed me to explain.
Who acts: lesson · What happens: have, appoint, explain · To what, where: me, mercy
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 (lesson), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lesson | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prophet | det |
| 7 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 life | appos |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mercy | case |
| 10 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | obl |
| 11 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | parataxis |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 appointed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 explain | mark |
| 14 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 appointed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the lesson of thy life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appoint | past | me | mercy | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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