The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 33
Therefore now I will go outside the city wall, and find some deserted garden, and there I will cut off my own head, and offer it up to Durgá as a sacrifice.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, find, desert, cut off, offer up · To what, where: city wall, deserted garden, own head, head, Durgá
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | compound |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 garden | det |
| 14 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 garden | amod |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 cut | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cut | aux |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 cut | compound:prt |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 offer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 offer | cc |
| 28 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offer | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 offer | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Durgá | case |
| 32 | Durgá | Durgá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 offer | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 sacrifice | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sacrifice | det |
| 35 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offer | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | the city wall | now | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | |||
| 2 | find | infinitive | I not said here | some deserted garden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cut off | future | I | my own head | there | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | offer up | infinitive | I not said here | head | Durgá | as a sacrifice | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to durgá=Goal |
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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