The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 52
Tell me, then, the Way of the World, and I will tell thee in return a third of thy way to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell · To what, where: me, third, thee, return · 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), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Tell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Way | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Way | det |
| 7 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 World | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 World | det |
| 10 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Way | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 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 | 1 Tell | conj |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 third | det |
| 20 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 third | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Land | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Land | det |
| 26 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Lotus | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lotus | det |
| 29 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Land | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Sun. | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sun. | det |
| 32 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lotus | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | then | the Way of the World ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | a third of thy way | thee | return | to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient third=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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