The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 89
Art thou a Rajpoot, and yet could'st thou not find courage enough to carry out thy imposition to the end?
Who acts: thou, thy · What happens: not find, carry out, impose · To what, where: could'st, imposition
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 (thou, thy), 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 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Art | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Rajpoot | det |
| 4 | Rajpoot | rajpoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Art | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 could'st | advmod |
| 8 | could'st | could'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 find | advmod |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Art | conj |
| 12 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 find | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 find | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 carry | compound:prt |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 imposition | nmod:poss |
| 18 | imposition | imposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | present | thou | could'st | courage obj; enough property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Topic | |||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | thou not said here | thy imposition | to the end | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imposition=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | impose | thy | nom imposition «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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