The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 113
And now I fear that in their fury my subjects may break out into revolt, and refuse to pay taxes, or depose me.
Who acts: I, subjects, citizens · What happens: fear, break out, refuse, not pay, depose, infuriate · To what, where: fury, taxes, 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 (I, subjects, citizens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fear | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fear | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 break | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fury | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fury | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | obl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 break | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fear | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 break | compound:prt |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 revolt | case |
| 15 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refuse | cc |
| 18 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pay | mark |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 refuse | xcomp |
| 21 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pay | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 depose | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 depose | cc |
| 24 | depose | depose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 refuse | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 depose | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break out | may | my subjects | citizens's fury | into revolt | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location | |||
| 3 | refuse | infinitive | I not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not pay | to-infinitive | I not said here | taxes | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset | ||||
| 5 | depose | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | infuriate | citizens = citizen | nom fury «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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