The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 17
I have, like a dishonest gambler, cast my die, and lost the game.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, cast, lose · To what, where: die, game
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gambler | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 gambler | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gambler | det |
| 6 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gambler | amod |
| 7 | gambler | gambler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cast | punct |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 die | nmod:poss |
| 11 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cast | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | like a dishonest gambler | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cast | infinitive | I not said here | my die | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Product | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
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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