The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 35

For I am old, and I am her father, and yet I feel before her like a domestic servant in the presence of a ruler of the world.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: father

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 old	case
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 father	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 father	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 father	cop
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 feel	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 feel	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
15	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 servant	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 servant	det
20	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 servant	amod
21	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feel	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 presence	det
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 servant	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ruler	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ruler	det
27	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 presence	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ruler	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			old property	tree rules
2	is a	present	I	Shrí's father		Shrí nmod:poss	tree rules
3	feel	present	I		before Shrí; yet	like a domestic servant in the presence of a ruler of the world	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like servant=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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 35