The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 43
For here I am, about to put myself to death; and what greater evil can befall me at the hands of the King, even though he should discover the deceit?
Who acts: I, greater evil, evil · What happens: be, put, befall, discover · To what, where: myself, me, hands, deceit
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, greater evil, evil), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 here | case |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 put | advcl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 here | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 befall | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 befall | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 befall | obj |
| 15 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 evil | amod |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 befall | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 befall | aux |
| 18 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 befall | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hands | det |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 befall | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 King | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hands | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 discover | punct |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 discover | advmod |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 discover | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 discover | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 discover | aux |
| 31 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 befall | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 deceit | det |
| 33 | deceit | deceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 discover | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | myself | to death; about property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal | ||||
| 3 | befall | can | greater evil | me | the hands of the King | what obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | discover | should | evil | the deceit | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deceit=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.
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