The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 37
And how, then, did they know that there was such a land to be seen?
Who acts: criers, land · What happens: do, know, be, see · 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 (criers, land), 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 | _ | 6 did | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 then | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 how | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 land | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seen | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 land | acl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | criers = crier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | such land | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | such land not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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