The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 54
Then Anushayiní said slowly: Dear husband, thou wert angry, and therefore indiscreet, and I fear, lest by doing evil we may bring on ourselves punishment.
Who acts: Anushayiní, I, we · What happens: say, fear, do, bring on · To what, where: Dear husband, evil, ourselves punishment · 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 (Anushayiní, I, we), 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 | Anushayiní | Anushayiní | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 6 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 husband | amod |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wert | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 wert | nsubj |
| 10 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wert | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indiscreet | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 indiscreet | cc |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 indiscreet | advmod |
| 15 | indiscreet | indiscreet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wert | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fear | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fear | nsubj |
| 19 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 21 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 23 doing | mark |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 doing | mark |
| 23 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fear | ccomp |
| 24 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 doing | obj |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bring | aux |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 evil | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 bring | compound:prt |
| 29 | ourselves | ourselves | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 punishment | amod |
| 30 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Anushayiní | Dear husband | then | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | fear | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bring on | may | we | ourselves punishment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
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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