The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 93
Then said Umra-Singh: Thou miserable root-eater, since the creation every woman has sacrificed herself for another, or else she was not a woman, for this is the nature of them all.
Who acts: Umra, Thou, miserable root eater, woman, this · What happens: say, eater, sacrifice, not be, be · To what, where: woman · 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, Thou, miserable root eater, woman), 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 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Singh | punct |
| 5 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Umra | flat |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 eater | punct |
| 7 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 eater | nsubj |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eater | amod |
| 9 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eater | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 root | punct |
| 11 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 creation | punct |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 15 creation | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 creation | det |
| 15 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eater | conj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sacrificed | aux |
| 19 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 eater | acl:relcl |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 sacrificed | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 another | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sacrificed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 woman | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 woman | cc |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 woman | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 woman | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 woman | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 woman | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eater | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 nature | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 nature | case |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 nature | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 nature | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nature | det |
| 36 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eater | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 nature | nmod |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eater | Thou | the creation conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sacrifice | present · perfect · passive | miserable root eater and the creation or a woman not said here | every woman | for another | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not is a | past | woman | a woman | else property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | this | for the nature; of eater | 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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