The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 62
Bring him therefore first to me, to examine him; and thereafter we shall see, whether it is time to prepare the marriage ceremonies, or not.
Who acts: you, we, fishing · What happens: bring, examine, not see, be, prepare · To what, where: King, me, time, marriage ceremonies
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 (you, we, fishing), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 examine | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 examine | mark |
| 9 | examine | examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 examine | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 13 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 time | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | cop |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prepare | mark |
| 23 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ceremonies | det |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ceremonies | compound |
| 26 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 prepare | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 not | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 not | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | King | me | first, therefore property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | ||
| 2 | examine | to-infinitive | you not said here | King | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | shall | we | thereafter property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | fishing | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prepare | to-infinitive | we not said here | the marriage ceremonies | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Patient |
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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