The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 25
Now will I find that Lotus Country, be it where it may, and then come back and claim her, not as I did before, in jest, but by the right of the seer and the seen.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, be, come back, claim, not do, see · To what, where: Lotus Country, sword, Country, jest
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 find | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 Country | mark |
| 6 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Country | compound |
| 7 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 it | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 may | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 may | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 claim | cc |
| 20 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 claim | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 did | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 claim | advcl |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 jest | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 jest | case |
| 30 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seen | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 seen | cc |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 right | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 right | det |
| 35 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seen | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 seer | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 seer | det |
| 38 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 right | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 seen | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 seen | det |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 come | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | I | Lotus Country | now | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | sword | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | I not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | claim speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | Country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not do | past | I | jest | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | see | participle | I not said here | by the right of the seer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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