The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 49
The Wairágí said: All my life I have tried to discover the Way of the World, and the Way of Woman, and the Way of Emancipation[3], and yet could never hit on the truth as to any one of them.
Who acts: Wairágí, Way · What happens: say, try, discover, not hit · To what, where: life, Way, truth · 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 (Wairágí, Way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wairágí | det |
| 2 | Wairágí | Wairágí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 5 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 life | det:predet |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tried | aux |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 discover | mark |
| 12 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Way | det |
| 14 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 discover | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 World | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 World | det |
| 17 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Way | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Way | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Way | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Way | det |
| 21 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Woman | case |
| 23 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Way | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Way | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Way | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Way | det |
| 27 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Way | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Emancipation | case |
| 29 | Emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Way | nmod |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 31 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 Emancipation | appos |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hit | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hit | cc |
| 35 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 38 hit | advmod |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 hit | aux |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 hit | advmod |
| 38 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Way | acl:relcl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 truth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 truth | det |
| 41 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hit | obl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 45 one | case |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 as | fixed |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hit | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 them | case |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 one | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wairágí | the Way of Woman and the Way of Emancipation ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect · passive | my life | I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Way of the World | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not hit | could | the Way of Emancipation not said here | the truth | yet | as any one of rajpoots | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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