The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 40

O that I could indeed find my husband, were it only to die in his arms!

Who acts: I, husband · What happens: find, die · 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 (I, husband), 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	O	o	INTJ	_	6 find	discourse
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 find	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	nsubj:outer
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 husband	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 die	mark
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 find	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 arms	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 die	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	I					indeed property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	past	my husband					in husband's arms; nectar nsubj	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in arm=Attribute

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 40