The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 79
And he said to the Wairágí: Know, then, that the Way of a Woman is this: There dwelt long ago, in the Windhya forest, an old Rishi.
Who acts: Rákshasa · What happens: say, know, be, dwell · To what, where: this, Windhya forest · 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 (Rákshasa), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Wairágí | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wairágí | det |
| 6 | Wairágí | Wairágí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Know | punct |
| 8 | Know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 then | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Way | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Way | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Way | det |
| 14 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Know | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Woman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Woman | det |
| 17 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Way | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 this | cop |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Way | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 dwelt | punct |
| 21 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 dwelt | expl |
| 22 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 ago | advmod |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 dwelt | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forest | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 28 | Windhya | Windhya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 forest | compound |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dwelt | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Rishi | punct |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Rishi | det |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Rishi | amod |
| 33 | Rishi | rishi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forest | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rákshasa | to the Wairágí | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wairágí=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | infinitive | then | the Way of a Woman parataxis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dwell | past | Rákshasa not said here | the Windhya forest and a old Rishi; there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
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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