The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 23
Here is a fairy tale which I found in an old Hindoo manuscript.
Who acts: fairy tale · What happens: be, find · To what, where: old Hindoo manuscript
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy tale), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | compound |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tale | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 manuscript | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 manuscript | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 manuscript | amod |
| 12 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 manuscript | compound |
| 13 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a fairy tale | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a fairy tale | a old Hindoo manuscript | I nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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