The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 78
Nevertheless, I will give him an answer, for the sake of my way, and the blue light in the eyes of Shrí.
Who acts: I · What happens: give · To what, where: answer, Rákshasa
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 (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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sake | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sake | det |
| 12 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sake | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 light | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 light | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 light | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 light | amod |
| 20 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eyes | det |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 light | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Shrí | case |
| 25 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a answer | Rákshasa | for the sake of my way; the blue light obj; nevertheless property | 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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