The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 19
Alas! no sooner had I found my dream than again I lost her, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: have, find, lose, commit, dream, operate · To what, where: dream, moon, terrible operation, sins, former birth · 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 (I, my), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dream | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 lost | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 operation | punct |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 operation | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 operation | det |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 operation | amod |
| 19 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sins | case |
| 21 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 operation | nmod |
| 22 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sins | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 birth | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 birth | det |
| 25 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 birth | amod |
| 26 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 committed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past | I | my dream | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dream=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | I | moon | the terrible operation of sins | again | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | commit | participle | sins not said here | a former birth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in birth=Destination | ||||
| 5 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | operate | sins | nom operation «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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