The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 18
But who she is I cannot tell, and her face I can never see, for it is always turned away.
Who acts: face · What happens: not be, not see, turn away · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 tell | advmod |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 turned | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 turned | aux:pass |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 turned | advmod |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 turned | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can · present | who nsubj; soul nsubj; I nsubj; tell property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not see | can | soul's face | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | turn away | present · passive | face | always, away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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