The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 30
Then she said: My name is Anushayiní[8], and for what purpose did the Creator form these eyes, but to reflect the image of their lord?
Who acts: name, purpose, My · What happens: say, be, do, form, reflect, name · To what, where: Anushayiní, Creator, eyes, image, lord · 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 (name, purpose, 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Anushayiní | punct |
| 5 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Anushayiní | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Anushayiní | cop |
| 8 | Anushayiní | Anushayiní | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 8 | punct |
| 10 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Anushayiní | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 8 | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Creator | det |
| 19 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obj |
| 20 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 form | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reflect | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 reflect | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 reflect | mark |
| 26 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 image | det |
| 28 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reflect | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lord | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lord | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 image | nmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | name | then | what ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | My name | Anushayiní | 8 appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | purpose | the Creator | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creator=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | form | present | this eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reflect | to-infinitive | name not said here | the image of eyes's lord | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | image | eyes's lord | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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