The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 10
Then said Maheshwara: This is well said: nevertheless, ask of me some boon.
Who acts: Maheshwara · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: This, boon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maheshwara), 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 | Maheshwara | Maheshwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 5 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 said | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 nevertheless | punct |
| 10 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | obl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 boon | det |
| 16 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maheshwara | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | This | nevertheless, well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | some boon | of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |
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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