The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 29
Madirekshana said: Speak to her yourself, and persuade her to it if you can.
Who acts: Madirekshana · What happens: say, speak, persuade · To what, where: yourself, Madirekshana, house · 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 (Madirekshana), 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 | Madirekshana | Madirekshana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Speak | punct |
| 4 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Speak | obl |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Speak | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 persuade | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 persuade | cc |
| 10 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Speak | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persuade | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persuade | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 persuade | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madirekshana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | yourself | Madirekshana | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | persuade | infinitive | Madirekshana | house | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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