The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 73
And he said, angrily: What is this delusion of a weasel, and why dost thou stick out thy tongue?
Who acts: Umra · What happens: say, be, do, stick out · To what, where: delusion, thou, tongue · 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 (Umra), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 angrily | punct |
| 5 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 delusion | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 delusion | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 delusion | cop |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 delusion | det |
| 10 | delusion | delusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 weasel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 weasel | det |
| 13 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delusion | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dost | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dost | cc |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 dost | advmod |
| 17 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 dost | obj |
| 19 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dost | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 stick | compound:prt |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stick | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this delusion | of a weasel; What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present | Umra not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stick out | infinitive | Umra not said here | thy tongue | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=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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