The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 1
Then said the Wairágí: Now shall thou have emancipation from thy own ignorance, as to thy way to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. And he stuck out at Umra-Singh his tongue.
Who acts: Wairágí, thou, thy · What happens: say, have, stick out, ignore · To what, where: emancipation, own ignorance, tongue, Umra · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wairágí, thou, thy), 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 | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | emancipation | emancipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ignorance | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 ignorance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ignorance | amod |
| 14 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 way | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Land | det |
| 22 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Lotus | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lotus | det |
| 25 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Land | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Sun. | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sun. | det |
| 28 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Lotus | nmod |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stuck | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stuck | nsubj |
| 31 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 stuck | compound:prt |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Umra | case |
| 34 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 stuck | obl |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Singh | punct |
| 36 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Umra | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stuck | obj |
| 39 | . | . | 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 | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | thou | emancipation | thy own ignorance | now | thy way to the Land of the Lotus of the Sun. parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emancipation=Patient | |
| 3 | stick out | past | Wairágí | Wairágí's tongue | Umra and Singh | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at umra=Destination | |||
| 4 | ignore | thy | nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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