The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 34
Therefore now I will abandon the dwellings of men, and enter the Great Forest, for only in this way will it ever be possible for me to discover a land of which no human being has ever heard.
Who acts: I, it, me · What happens: abandon, enter, be, discover, hear · To what, where: dwellings, Great Forest, way, land, human
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, it, me), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 abandon | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 abandon | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 abandon | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 abandon | aux |
| 5 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dwellings | det |
| 7 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 abandon | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dwellings | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 enter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 enter | cc |
| 12 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 abandon | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Forest | det |
| 14 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Forest | amod |
| 15 | Forest | Forest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 enter | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 possible | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 possible | mark |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 way | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 possible | obl |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 possible | aux |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 possible | nsubj |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 possible | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 possible | cop |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 enter | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 discover | mark |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 discover | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 discover | mark |
| 30 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 possible | csubj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 discover | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 heard | obl |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 human | det |
| 36 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 heard | nsubj |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 heard | aux:pass |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 heard | aux |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 heard | advmod |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 land | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abandon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | future | I | the dwellings of men | now | therefore property | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme dwelling=Source | ||
| 2 | enter | infinitive | I not said here | the Great Forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | future | it | this way | ever | possible property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | discover | to-infinitive | me | a land | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hear | gerund · perfect · passive | no human | ever | of a land | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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