The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 39
And then he said to her: My daughter, it is high time that you were married: for an unmarried daughter is a scandal in her father's house.
Who acts: husband, form · What happens: say, be, marry · To what, where: Creator, high time, scandal, 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 (husband, form), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 daughter | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 scandal | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 daughter | det |
| 22 | unmarried | unmarried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughter | amod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scandal | obl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 scandal | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 scandal | det |
| 26 | scandal | scandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 father | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scandal | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband | Creator | then | My daughter ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is a | present | form | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | high time | you nsubj:pass | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a scandal | Creator's father's house | for a unmarried daughter | tree rules |
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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