Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 33
If thy supreme desire had been the delights of Paradise, and thou hadst believed that by the tenor of thy life these delights had been secured, as more could not have been given thee, thou wouldst not have regretted that less was not offered.
Who acts: tenor, thy, Paradise · What happens: believe, secure, not give, not regret, not offer, desire · To what, where: thou, delights, more, less · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tenor, thy, Paradise), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 been | mark |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 desire | nmod:poss |
| 3 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 desire | amod |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 been | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 been | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 believed | aux:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 delights | det |
| 8 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 been | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Paradise | case |
| 10 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 delights | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 believed | cc |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | hadst | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 believed | aux:pass |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 secured | mark |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 tenor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tenor | det |
| 19 | tenor | tenor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 secured | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tenor | nmod |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 delights | det |
| 24 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 secured | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 secured | aux:pass |
| 27 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 believed | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 given | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 given | mark |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 given | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 given | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 given | advmod |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 given | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 given | aux:pass |
| 35 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 secured | advcl |
| 36 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 given | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 regretted | punct |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 regretted | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 42 regretted | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 regretted | advmod |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 regretted | aux |
| 42 | regretted | regret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 secured | conj |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 offered | mark |
| 44 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 offered | aux:pass |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 offered | advmod |
| 47 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 regretted | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | participle · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | secure | past · perfect · passive | the tenor of thy life | this delights | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not give | could · perfect · passive | more | thee obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not regret | would · perfect · passive | thou | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not offer | past · passive | less | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | desire | thy | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | delight | Paradise | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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