The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 17
Surely it is but a little while since I lost thee in the palace of Indirálayá.
Who acts: doubt, I · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: little while, thee, palace
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, I), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 while | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 while | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 while | cop |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 while | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 while | amod |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | mark |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 lost | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 lost | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Indirálayá | case |
| 16 | Indirálayá | Indirálayá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | doubt | a little while | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | I | thee | the palace of Indirálayá | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
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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