Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 9
I was now encouraged to look up, and I replied, “Let my Lord forgive the presumption of his servant, who rather than utter a falsehood, would be dumb for ever.
Who acts: I, Lord, presumption · What happens: encourage, look up, reply, let, forgive, utter · To what, where: I, Lord, presumption, falsehood, servant · 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 (I, Lord, presumption), 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 | 4 encouraged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 encouraged | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 encouraged | advmod |
| 4 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 encouraged | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 replied | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 encouraged | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 14 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Let | obj |
| 17 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 presumption | det |
| 19 | presumption | presumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgive | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 servant | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 servant | nmod:poss |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presumption | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 utter | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 utter | nsubj |
| 25 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 27 utter | cc |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 rather | fixed |
| 27 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 presumption | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 falsehood | det |
| 29 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 utter | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dumb | punct |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 dumb | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dumb | cop |
| 33 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 falsehood | amod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 ever | case |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 dumb | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 encouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | past · passive | I | now | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | my Lord | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | forgive in a quote | infinitive | my Lord not said here | the presumption of Lord's servant | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presumption=Theme | ||||
| 6 | utter speech: other in a quote | infinitive | the presumption of Lord's servant | a falsehood | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent falsehood=Topic | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | would | dumb property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | presume in a quote | Lord's servant | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: of=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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