The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 39
And now I feel that I cannot long endure, for my strength is becoming exhausted.
Who acts: I, strength · What happens: feel, not endure, become, exhaust
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 (I, strength), 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 | _ | 4 feel | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 feel | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 endure | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 endure | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 endure | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 endure | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 endure | advmod |
| 10 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 becoming | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 becoming | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 becoming | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 becoming | aux |
| 16 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 endure | advcl |
| 17 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 becoming | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | now | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not endure | can | I | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | present · progressive | my strength | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exhaust | participle | my strength not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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