The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 82
But the minister drew his bow at a venture, and knew not how he hit the mark.
Who acts: minister, Shiwa · What happens: draw, not know, hit · To what, where: bow, venture, mark · 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 (minister, Shiwa), 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 | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minister | det |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 venture | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 venture | det |
| 9 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knew | advmod |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 hit | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mark | det |
| 18 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hit | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the minister | Shiwa's bow | a venture | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | past | the minister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hit | past | Shiwa | the mark | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mark=Co-Theme |
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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