The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 98
And he said to Umra-Singh: Now thou hast only to tell me the Way of Salvation, and thy own way will be clear before thee.
Who acts: Umra, thou, own way · What happens: say, have, tell, be · To what, where: Umra, Way, me · 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, own way), 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 | _ | 5 Umra | case |
| 5 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Singh | punct |
| 7 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Umra | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 hast | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hast | advmod |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hast | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 hast | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hast | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Way | det |
| 17 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Salvation | case |
| 19 | Salvation | Salvation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Way | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clear | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clear | cc |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clear | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 clear | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 clear | cop |
| 27 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | conj |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 clear | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Umra | Umra and Singh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to umra=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | thou | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the Way of Salvation | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | future | thy own way | before thee | clear 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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