The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 54
Beside me stood a Hindoo, whose real name I do not think it lawful to mention.
Who acts: me, I, Hindoo · What happens: stand, not think, mention, name · To what, where: Hindoo, corpse
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 (me, I, Hindoo), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Hindoo | det |
| 5 | Hindoo | Hindoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hindoo | appos |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 name | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obj |
| 15 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 think | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 mention | mark |
| 17 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lawful | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | me | a Hindoo | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hindoo=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | corpse | lawful property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | mention speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | a Hindoo | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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