The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 66
The peacock said: I am a peacock, the son of a peacock, and the carriage of the Goddess Saraswatí is a hereditary office in our caste.
Who acts: peacock, I, carriage · What happens: say, be · To what, where: peacock, hereditary office, caste · 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 (peacock, I, carriage), 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 peacock | det |
| 2 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 peacock | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 peacock | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 peacock | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peacock | det |
| 8 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peacock | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 peacock | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 peacock | det |
| 14 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 office | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 office | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 carriage | det |
| 18 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 office | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Saraswatí | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Saraswatí | det |
| 21 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Saraswatí | compound |
| 22 | Saraswatí | Saraswatí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 carriage | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 office | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 office | det |
| 25 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 office | amod |
| 26 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peacock | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 caste | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 caste | nmod:poss |
| 29 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 office | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the peacock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a peacock and the son of a peacock and a hereditary office | the son of a peacock conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the carriage of the Goddess Saraswatí | a hereditary office | our caste | tree rules |
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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