The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 93
For though he is a knave, yet he is a handsome knave, and deserves rather contempt and laughter, than punishment and blows.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, deserve · To what, where: handsome knave, contempt
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 (father), 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 | _ | 6 knave | case |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 knave | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knave | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knave | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knave | det |
| 6 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knave | punct |
| 8 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 knave | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knave | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knave | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knave | det |
| 12 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knave | amod |
| 13 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knave | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deserves | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deserves | cc |
| 16 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knave | parataxis |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 contempt | advmod |
| 18 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deserves | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laughter | cc |
| 20 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 contempt | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 punishment | punct |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 punishment | case |
| 23 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deserves | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blows | cc |
| 25 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 punishment | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | father | for a knave yet a handsome knave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | father | a handsome knave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present | contempt and laughter | punishment and blows parataxis | tree rules |
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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