Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 34
The content which was once enjoyed was but the lethargy of the soul; and the distress which is now suffered, will but quicken it to action.
Who acts: content · What happens: enjoy, be, suffer, quicken · To what, where: content, lethargy, distress
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 (content), 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 content | det |
| 2 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lethargy | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 enjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enjoyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 enjoyed | advmod |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 content | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lethargy | cop |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 lethargy | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lethargy | det |
| 10 | lethargy | lethargy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 soul | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soul | det |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lethargy | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 distress | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 distress | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 distress | det |
| 17 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lethargy | appos |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 suffered | aux:pass |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 suffered | advmod |
| 21 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 distress | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 quicken | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 quicken | aux |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 quicken | cc |
| 25 | quicken | quicken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lethargy | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 quicken | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 action | case |
| 28 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quicken | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lethargy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past · passive | the content | once property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the content | the lethargy | of the soul; the distress appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suffer | present · passive | the distress | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | quicken | future | the content not said here | content | to action | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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