The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 21
Then his father said: Dismiss this delusion, and prepare for the wedding: for I have arranged the ceremonies, and appointed the day.
Who acts: father, I · What happens: say, dismiss, prepare, arrange, appoint · To what, where: delusion, ceremonies · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dismiss | punct |
| 6 | Dismiss | dismiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 delusion | det |
| 8 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dismiss | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prepare | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 prepare | cc |
| 11 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Dismiss | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prepare | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 arranged | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 arranged | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 arranged | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 arranged | aux |
| 19 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Dismiss | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ceremonies | det |
| 21 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 arranged | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appointed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appointed | cc |
| 24 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra's father | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | infinitive | this delusion | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delusion=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | for the wedding | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wedding=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | arrange | present · perfect | I | the ceremonies | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Product | ||||
| 5 | appoint | past | Umra's father not said here | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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