The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 92
Then said the Wairágí: Thou foolish Rajpoot, I asked thee for the Way of a Woman, and thou hast told me the Way of Emancipation.
Who acts: Wairágí, I · What happens: say, ask, tell · To what, where: foolish Rajpoot, thee, thou, Way · 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 (Wairágí, 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 | 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 Wairágí | det |
| 4 | Wairágí | Wairágí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rajpoot | punct |
| 6 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Rajpoot | nsubj |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rajpoot | amod |
| 8 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Way | det |
| 15 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Woman | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Woman | det |
| 18 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Way | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 told | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux:pass |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Way | det |
| 26 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 told | iobj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emancipation | case |
| 28 | Emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Way | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wairágí | foolish Rajpoot Thou | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I | thee | the Way of a Woman ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | thou | the Way of Emancipation | me iobj | 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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