The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 41
Let me live and die a maiden, for I do not wish to be married[11].
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, live, die, not wish, marry · To what, where: me, maiden, 11
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 (you, me, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 die | cc |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 wish | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 married | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 11 | punct |
| 18 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 married | obl |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 11 | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | me not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | me not said here | a maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wish | present · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | 11 | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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