The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 31
And who knows but that I may meet her in the next life whom I dream of in this?
Who acts: I · What happens: know, meet, dream · To what, where: Death, next life
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 knows | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 meet | cc |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | aux |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knows | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dream | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dream | nsubj |
| 16 | dream | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 life | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 dream | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | meet | may | I | Death | the next life | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | dream | present | I | the next life | of this | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/4/31/