The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 107
Then suddenly Maheshwara stood before him, and laughed, and said: Remember thy former births.
Who acts: Maheshwara · What happens: stand, laugh, say, remember · To what, where: former births · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maheshwara), 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 stood | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 3 | Maheshwara | Maheshwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Remember | punct |
| 14 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | xcomp |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 births | nmod:poss |
| 16 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 births | amod |
| 17 | births | birth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Remember | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Maheshwara | before thing; then | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | Maheshwara not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Maheshwara not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | remember | infinitive | Maheshwara not said here | thy former births | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent birth=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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