The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 36
Then she bound up that wet hair into a knot, and remained all day by the pool, not endeavouring to go further: for she said to herself: Rather let me stay here to perish of hunger, or furnish myself food to some wild beast, than continue my journey through a wood filled with illusions worse than a hundred deaths.
Who acts: moonstone, me, wood, my · What happens: bind up, remain, not endeavour, go, say, let · To what, where: wet hair, moonstone, me, myself, journey, hundred deaths · 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 (moonstone, me, wood, my), 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 bound | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bound | nsubj |
| 3 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 bound | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 hair | mark |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hair | amod |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 knot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knot | det |
| 10 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bound | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remained | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remained | cc |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 pool | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pool | det |
| 18 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remained | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 endeavouring | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 endeavouring | advmod |
| 21 | endeavouring | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 remained | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 endeavouring | xcomp |
| 24 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 said | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bound | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 herself | case |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 let | punct |
| 32 | Rather | rather | X | _ | 33 let | cc |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 let | obj |
| 35 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 let | xcomp |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 stay | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 perish | mark |
| 38 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 stay | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hunger | case |
| 40 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 perish | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 furnish | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 furnish | cc |
| 43 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 let | conj |
| 44 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 furnish | obj |
| 45 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 furnish | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 beast | case |
| 47 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 beast | det |
| 48 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 beast | amod |
| 49 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 furnish | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 continue | punct |
| 51 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 52 continue | mark |
| 52 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 let | conj |
| 53 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 journey | nmod:poss |
| 54 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 continue | obj |
| 55 | through | through | ADP | _ | 57 wood | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 wood | det |
| 57 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 continue | obl |
| 58 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 57 wood | acl |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 illusions | case |
| 60 | illusions | illusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 filled | obl |
| 61 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 64 hundred | advmod |
| 62 | than | than | ADP | _ | 61 worse | fixed |
| 63 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 hundred | det |
| 64 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 65 deaths | nummod |
| 65 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 filled | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind up | past | moonstone | wet hair | then | into a knot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into knot=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | remain | past | moonstone not said here | day | by the pool | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pool=Location | |||
| 3 | not endeavour | gerund | moonstone not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | moonstone not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | moonstone | moonstone | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | stay | infinitive | me not said here | here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | perish | to-infinitive | me not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 9 | furnish | infinitive | myself | to some wild beast; food obj | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | continue | infinitive | my journey | through a wood | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme through wood=Instrument | ||||
| 11 | fill | participle | a wood not said here | hundred deaths | with illusions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with illusion=Instrument | |||
| 12 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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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