The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 45
Thou art one more ready to ask than to answer questions: but I give nothing for nothing.
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, answer, give · To what, where: questions, nothing
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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 art | nsubj |
| 2 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 art | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 answer | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 answer | mark |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 11 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 answer | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 art | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 nothing | case |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | give | present | I | nothing | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for nothing=Asset |
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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