The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 116
Now that old King had a daughter whom he loved better than his own soul.
Who acts: old King, king · What happens: have, love · To what, where: daughter
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 (old King, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 King | nsubj |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 loved | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 loved | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 soul | amod |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | old King that | a daughter | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | love | past | king | a daughter | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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