The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 77
But they went immediately, and told the criers the order of the King.
Who acts: chamberlains · What happens: go, tell, order · To what, where: order, criers, King · 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 (chamberlains), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 criers | det |
| 9 | criers | crier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 order | det |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 order | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | chamberlains = chamberlain not said here | the order of the King | the criers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crier=Recipient order=Topic | |||
| 3 | order | the King | nom order «communication 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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