The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 20
So now, nothing remains but to do as quickly as possible what I was about to do before I went to the palace, and put myself, in very truth, to death.
Who acts: nothing, I · What happens: remain, do, be, go, put · To what, where: palace, myself
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 (nothing, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remains | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 remains | nsubj |
| 5 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remains | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 quickly | advmod |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 possible | mark |
| 12 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 quickly | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 about | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 about | cop |
| 16 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 about | xcomp |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 went | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 put | cc |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remains | conj |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 truth | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 truth | case |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 truth | advmod |
| 32 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 death | punct |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 death | case |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | nothing | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | what obj; quickly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | I | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | nothing not said here | myself | to death; truth conj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal |
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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