The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 110

But all was in vain: for not a man could they find, nor did anyone come forward to say: I have seen that Lotus Country: give me the reward.

Who acts: all, man, vain, I · What happens: be, not find, come forward, say, see, give · To what, where: Lotus Country, reward, me · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, man, vain, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 vain	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 vain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vain	case
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 come	nsubj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 find	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 find	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vain	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 did	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	advcl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 say	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 Country	mark
27	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Country	compound
28	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 reward	det
33	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	all			vain property	tree rules
2	not find	could	a man			men = man nsubj	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	come forward	past · do-support	vain			anyone nsubj; forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	vain not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	present · perfect	I	Lotus Country			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	give	infinitive	vain not said here	the reward	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reward=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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 110