The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 70
And he thought for a while, and then he said again: Perhaps it is better to do as she says, and endeavour to discover a man who has seen that Land.
Who acts: dream, cornfield, man · What happens: think, say, be, do, discover, see · To what, where: man, Land · 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 (dream, cornfield, man), 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 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 better | punct |
| 14 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 better | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 better | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | cop |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 endeavour | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 better | csubj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 says | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | nsubj |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 endeavour | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 endeavour | cc |
| 25 | endeavour | endeavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 discover | mark |
| 27 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 endeavour | acl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 discover | obj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 seen | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 seen | aux |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 man | acl:relcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 Land | mark |
| 34 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seen | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | dream | while | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | dream | then; again | endeavour ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | good, perhaps property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | cornfield | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | discover | to-infinitive | dream not said here | a man | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 7 | see | present · perfect | a man | Land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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