The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 29
And she tried to rise, but could not, for her limbs refused to do their duty.
Who acts: moonstone, limbs · What happens: try, rise, refuse, not do · To what, where: duty
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 (moonstone, limbs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tried | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 rise | mark |
| 5 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 could | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 could | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rise | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 could | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 refused | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 refused | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 refused | nsubj |
| 14 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 refused | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 duty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | moonstone | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | moonstone not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refuse | past | moonstone's limbs | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not do | to-infinitive | moonstone's limbs not said here | limbs's duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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