The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 47
And now, if thou wilt tell me my three ways, I will tell thee thine.
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: tell · To what, where: three ways, thine, thee · 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 (thou, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ways | nmod:poss |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ways | nummod |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | thou | my three ways | now | me iobj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | thine | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient thy=Topic |
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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