The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 18

Then said Shrí, sighing: There came to me but now one who resembled thee in every feature, and deceived me: and even now, I shudder when I think of it, lest thou too should be another such as he.

Who acts: Shrí, one, I · What happens: say, sigh, come, resemble, deceive, shudder · To what, where: me, thee, feature · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Shrí, one, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Shrí	Shrí	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sighing	punct
5	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 said	advcl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 came	expl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 came	obl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 resembled	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 resembled	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 resembled	nsubj
15	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 resembled	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 feature	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 feature	det
19	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resembled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deceived	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 deceived	cc
22	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 deceived	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shudder	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 now	advmod
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 shudder	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 shudder	nsubj
30	shudder	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 think	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 think	nsubj
33	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shudder	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 think	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thou	punct
37	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	38 thou	case
38	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 think	ccomp
39	too	too	ADV	_	38 thou	advmod
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 another	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 another	cop
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	38 thou	conj
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	45 he	case
44	as	as	ADP	_	43 such	fixed
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 another	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Shrí				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	sigh	gerund	Shrí not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past			me	there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	resemble	past	one	thee		every feature		who nsubj	tree rules
5	deceive	past		me					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6	shudder	present	I				now		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	think speech: other	present	I					of feature; thou ccomp	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 18