The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 21
For life seemed unendurable, before I had found the woman of my dream: but now it is worse by far, since I have found her only to become in her eyes a thing of scorn, more horrible than a hundred deaths.
Who acts: I, dream, my · What happens: seem, find, be, become, dream · To what, where: woman, eyes
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, dream, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 life | case |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unendurable | unendurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seemed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dream | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 worse | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 worse | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 worse | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worse | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worse | cop |
| 20 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 seemed | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 far | case |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 worse | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 24 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 27 found | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | aux |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 become | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 become | mark |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 found | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 become | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 thing | det |
| 36 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eyes | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 scorn | case |
| 38 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thing | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 horrible | punct |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 horrible | advmod |
| 41 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 found | parataxis |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 45 deaths | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hundred | det |
| 44 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 deaths | nummod |
| 45 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 horrible | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | for life; unendurable property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past · perfect | I | the woman of my dream | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | dream | now | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | present · perfect | I | woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | I not said here | woman's eyes | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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