The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 16
Nevertheless, I have given thee a boon: thou shalt have thy desire.
Who acts: I, thou, thy · What happens: give, have, desire · To what, where: boon, thee, desire
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 (I, thou, thy), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boon | det |
| 8 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | parataxis |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 desire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | a boon | thee | nevertheless property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient boon=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | shall | thou | thy desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | desire | thy | nom desire «feeling 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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