The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 51
So day after day he continued to urge her and argue with her.
Who acts: reason · What happens: continue, urge, argue · To what, where: daughter
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 (reason), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 continued | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 urge | mark |
| 8 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | xcomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 urge | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 argue | cc |
| 11 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 urge | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 argue | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | reason | day | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | urge | to-infinitive | reason not said here | daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | infinitive | reason not said here | with daughter | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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