Grammar parses for passage 4.17.6
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Λακεδαιμονίοις μὲν τὸ ἐς Μεσσηνίους σόφισμα ὁ δαίμων ἔμελλεν αὐτοῖς ἀποφανεῖν συμφοράν·
The dative Λακεδαιμονίοις is an experiencer/possessor-like complement with ἔμελλεν; τὸ ... σόφισμα is the subject, αὐτοῖς is a dative of disadvantage/reference, and ἀποφανεῖν is a complementary infinitive. The article τὸ is substantival with the prepositional phrase ἐς Μεσσηνίους modifying σόφισμα.
| # | Form | Lemma | UPOS | XPOS | Features | Head | DepRel | Conf. | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Λακεδαιμονίοις | Λακεδαιμόνιος | PROPN | N--DP--- | Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | 9 ἔμελλεν | iobj | medium | Dative of reference/experiencer with ἔμελλεν. |
| 2 | μὲν | μέν | PART | X----T-- | _ | 9 ἔμελλεν | discourse | high | Correlative particle; no following δέ is present in this sentence. |
| 3 | τὸ | ὁ | DET | L--NSN-- | Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing | 6 σόφισμα | det | high | Article with neuter substantival σόφισμα phrase. |
| 4 | ἐς | εἰς | ADP | R-------- | _ | 5 Μεσσηνίους | case | high | Epic/poetic form of εἰς. |
| 5 | Μεσσηνίους | Μεσσήνιος | PROPN | A----APM- | Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | 6 σόφισμα | nmod | high | Object of ἐς; denotes the Messenians. |
| 6 | σόφισμα | σόφισμα | NOUN | N--NSN-- | Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing | 9 ἔμελλεν | nsubj | high | Subject of ἔμελλεν; modified by τὸ and ἐς Μεσσηνίους. |
| 7 | ὁ | ὁ | DET | L--NSM-- | Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | 8 δαίμων | det | high | Article with δαίμων. |
| 8 | δαίμων | δαίμων | NOUN | N--NSM-- | Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | 9 ἔμελλεν | nsubj | high | Agentive subject of ἔμελλεν. |
| 9 | ἔμελλεν | μέλλω | VERB | V--IAI3S- | Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Imp|Voice=Act | 0 ROOT | root | high | Main finite verb, with complementary infinitive ἀποφανεῖν. |
| 10 | αὐτοῖς | αὐτός | PRON | P---DPM-- | Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | 11 ἀποφανεῖν | iobj | medium | Dative recipient/affected party with ἀποφανεῖν; refers to the Lacedaemonians. |
| 11 | ἀποφανεῖν | ἀποφαίνω | VERB | V--FAN---- | Mood=Inf|Tense=Fut|Voice=Act | 9 ἔμελλεν | xcomp | high | Future active infinitive complementary to ἔμελλεν. |
| 12 | συμφοράν | συμφορά | NOUN | N--ASF-- | Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | 11 ἀποφανεῖν | obj | high | Predicative/object accusative with ἀποφανεῖν: reveal it as a disaster. |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | _ | 9 ἔμελλεν | punct | high |
ἐκέλευεν οὖν πάντα τινά, ἐπειδὰν αὐτὸς σημήνῃ, φυγῇ χρῆσθαι.
The main verb ἐκέλευεν governs an accusative-and-infinitive construction: πάντα τινά is the understood object/accusative subject of χρῆσθαι, while the ἐπειδάν clause has σημήνῃ as its subjunctive verb and αὐτός as subject. φυγῇ is the dative complement of χρῆσθαι, ‘to resort to flight’; its exact lexical parsing is somewhat uncertain.
| # | Form | Lemma | UPOS | XPOS | Features | Head | DepRel | Conf. | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ἐκέλευεν | κελεύω | VERB | V-IAI-3S | Mood=Indicative|Number=Singular|Person=3|Tense=Imperfect|Voice=Active | 0 ROOT | root | high | Main finite verb. |
| 2 | οὖν | οὖν | ADV | D-------- | _ | 1 ἐκέλευεν | discourse | high | Inferential connective; UD relation rendered as discourse. |
| 3 | πάντα | πᾶς | DET | A-APM---- | Case=Accusative|Gender=Masculine|Number=Plural | 4 τινά | det | high | Attributive quantifier modifying τινά. |
| 4 | τινά | τις | PRON | PX-APM---- | Case=Accusative|Gender=Masculine|Number=Plural | 11 χρῆσθαι | nsubj | medium | Accusative subject of the infinitive χρῆσθαι; enclitic indefinite pronoun. |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | _ | 1 ἐκέλευεν | punct | high | |
| 6 | ἐπειδὰν | ἐπειδάν | SCONJ | C-------- | _ | 8 σημήνῃ | mark | high | Temporal subordinating conjunction introducing a clause with subjunctive. |
| 7 | αὐτὸς | αὐτός | PRON | P-NSM---- | Case=Nominative|Gender=Masculine|Number=Singular | 8 σημήνῃ | nsubj | high | Emphatic subject of σημήνῃ. |
| 8 | σημήνῃ | σημαίνω | VERB | V-2AAS-3S | Mood=Subjunctive|Number=Singular|Person=3|Tense=Aorist|Voice=Active | 11 χρῆσθαι | advcl | high | Temporal subordinate verb; aorist subjunctive after ἐπειδάν. |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | _ | 8 σημήνῃ | punct | high | |
| 10 | φυγῇ | φυγή | NOUN | N-DSF---- | Case=Dative|Gender=Feminine|Number=Singular | 11 χρῆσθαι | obl | medium | Dative complement of χρῆσθαι, ‘use/resort to flight’; lexical choice may be construed as a dative of means or object. |
| 11 | χρῆσθαι | χράομαι | VERB | V-PMN---- | Mood=Infinitive|Tense=Present|Voice=Middle | 1 ἐκέλευεν | xcomp | high | Infinitive complement of κελεύω. |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | _ | 1 ἐκέλευεν | punct | high |