Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 31
“Thou wast once content with poverty and labour, only because they were become habitual, and ease and affluence were placed beyond thy hope; for when ease and affluence approached thee, thou wast content with poverty and labour no more.
Who acts: ease, thy · What happens: become, place, approach, hope · To what, where: poverty, ease, hope, thee
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 (ease, thy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wast | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 wast | nsubj |
| 3 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 content | advmod |
| 5 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wast | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 poverty | case |
| 7 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 content | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 labour | cc |
| 9 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poverty | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 become | advmod |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux:pass |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 habitual | amod |
| 16 | habitual | habitual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wast | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 placed | cc |
| 19 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 affluence | cc |
| 21 | affluence | affluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ease | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 placed | aux:pass |
| 23 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wast | conj |
| 24 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 hope | case |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 hope | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 placed | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 approached | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 approached | mark |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 approached | mark |
| 30 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 approached | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 affluence | cc |
| 32 | affluence | affluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ease | conj |
| 33 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wast | conj |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 approached | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wast | punct |
| 36 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 wast | nsubj |
| 37 | wast | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wast | conj |
| 38 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wast | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 poverty | case |
| 40 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wast | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 labour | cc |
| 42 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 poverty | conj |
| 43 | no | no | ADV | _ | 44 more | advmod |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 labour | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | past · passive | poverty | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | place in a quote | past · passive | ease and affluence | thy hope | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beyond hope=Destination | ||||
| 3 | approach in a quote | past | ease and affluence | thee | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | thy | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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