The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 94
Then the King said to his guards: Take this impostor, and thrust him out into the street.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, take, thrust out · To what, where: impostor, street · 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 (King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 guards | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guards | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Take | punct |
| 9 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 impostor | det |
| 11 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrust | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrust | cc |
| 14 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Take | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrust | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 thrust | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 street | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 street | det |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrust | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | to King's guards | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to guard=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | this impostor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impostor=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thrust out | infinitive | impostor | the street | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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