The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 53
Then at last Shrí said: Dear father, do not be angry, and I will tell you the truth.
Who acts: Dear father, I · What happens: say, not be, tell · To what, where: last Shrí, truth, you · 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 (Dear father, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Shrí | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Shrí | amod |
| 4 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 7 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 father | amod |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 angry | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 angry | cop |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 father | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear father | last Shrí | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | Dear father not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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