The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 46
Know, that I also have all my life been looking, not for one way only, but for three.
Who acts: you, I, life · What happens: know, have, look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I, life), 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Know | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 looking | det:predet |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 looking | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 looking | aux |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 have | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 way | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 way | nummod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 way | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 three | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 three | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 three | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 have | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | for three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | participle · progressive | life | for one way; my nmod:poss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for way=Theme |
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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