The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 90

Then said the Rishi's daughter: And who, then, would fetch for my father his sacrificial fuel, or water to cook his cakes of rice and milk?

Who acts: daughter · What happens: say, fetch, cook · To what, where: sacrificial fuel, cakes · 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 (daughter), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rishi	det
4	Rishi	Rishi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rishi	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fetch	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 fetch	cc
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fetch	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 who	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fetch	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fetch	aux
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fuel	nmod:poss
19	sacrificial	sacrificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fuel	amod
20	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fuel	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cook	mark
25	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fetch	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cakes	nmod:poss
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cook	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 rice	case
29	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cakes	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 milk	cc
31	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rice	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Rishi's daughter		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fetch	would		Father's sacrificial fuel or water	then	for my father; who nsubj	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme for father=Beneficiary
3	cook	to-infinitive		Father's cakes of rice and milk			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 90