The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 22
And at last there came a day when the King her father looked at her, and said to himself: The fruit is ripe: and now it is time that it were plucked and eaten.
Who acts: King, fruit, time · What happens: come, look, say, be, pluck, eat · To what, where: last, King, time, fruit · 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 (King, fruit, time), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 came | expl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 looked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 ripe | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fruit | det |
| 23 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ripe | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ripe | cop |
| 25 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 time | cc |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 time | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 time | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 time | cop |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 plucked | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 plucked | aux:pass |
| 35 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 time | acl:relcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eaten | cc |
| 37 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 plucked | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last; there | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the King Shrí's father | at Shrí | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the fruit | ripe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | fruit | time | now | tree rules | |||
| 6 | pluck | past · passive | time not said here | fruit | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | eat | participle | time not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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