The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 28
Is she not now of ripe age, and does not a grown-up maiden in the house bring upon herself and her relations infamy in this world and the next?
Who acts: refuse, house · What happens: not be, not grow up, bring
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 (refuse, house), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 age | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 age | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 age | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 age | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grown | cc |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 grown | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grown | det |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 age | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grown | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | nsubj |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 maiden | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 herself | case |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 bring | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 infamy | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 infamy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 infamy | compound |
| 26 | infamy | infamy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 herself | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 infamy | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 next | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 next | det |
| 32 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 herself | conj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | refuse | of ripe age; now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grow up | present · do-support | refuse not said here | maiden property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | the house | upon refuse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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