The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 42
So what is to hinder me from going to the King and saying: I have seen that Lotus Land, and now, give me the reward?
Who acts: I · What happens: be, go, say, see, give · To what, where: Lotus Land, reward, me · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 hinder | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 hinder | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hinder | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hinder | mark |
| 5 | hinder | hinder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hinder | obj |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hinder | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saying | cc |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 going | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hinder | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 Land | mark |
| 19 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Land | compound |
| 20 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 give | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 now | punct |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 hinder | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 reward | det |
| 28 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hinder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | what obj; me obj; hinder property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | I | Lotus Land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | the reward | me | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient reward=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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