The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 66
And he said to himself: This is a strange story, and the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine is inscrutable.
Who acts: King, This, conduct · What happens: say, be, conduct · To what, where: King, strange story, mysterious daughter · 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 (King, This, conduct), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 story | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 story | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inscrutable | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 inscrutable | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 conduct | det |
| 15 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inscrutable | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 daughter | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conduct | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mine | case |
| 21 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 inscrutable | cop |
| 23 | inscrutable | inscrutable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | a strange story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the conduct of this mysterious daughter of mine | inscrutable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conduct | this mysterious daughter of mine | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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