The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 72

Then he said slowly, in a low voice, as if speaking rather to himself than me: How should it not return?

Who acts: Hindoo, festival · What happens: say, speak, not return · To what, where: low voice, Hindoo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hindoo, festival), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 voice	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 voice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 voice	det
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voice	amod
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 speaking	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 speaking	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 speaking	mark
13	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 speaking	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 speaking	obl
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 speaking	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 return	punct
20	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 return	advmod
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 return	aux
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 return	nsubj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 return	advmod
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hindoo		a low voice	then	slowly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner
2	speak speech: other	gerund	Hindoo not said here	Hindoo			than me	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent
3	not return	should	festival					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 72