The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 59
Then the old woman said: I am the Goddess Saraswatí, and this is the peacock on which I ride[5].
Who acts: old woman, I, this · What happens: say, be, ride · To what, where: Goddess Saraswatí, peacock, 5 · 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 (old woman, I, this), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Saraswatí | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Saraswatí | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Saraswatí | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Saraswatí | det |
| 10 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Saraswatí | compound |
| 11 | Saraswatí | Saraswatí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 peacock | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peacock | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 peacock | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 peacock | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peacock | det |
| 17 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Saraswatí | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ride | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 peacock | acl:relcl |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 5 | punct |
| 23 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 ride | obj |
| 24 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 5 | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | the Goddess Saraswatí | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | the peacock | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride | present | I | 5 | the peacock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=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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