The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 104
And yet I could wish to die, if at all, not in the presence of eyes such as these, but in the colour of the eyes of Shrí.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, die · To what, where: presence, all
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wish | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 wish | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 all | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 die | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 presence | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 presence | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 presence | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 presence | det |
| 16 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 presence | nmod |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 these | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 eyes | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 colour | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 colour | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 colour | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 colour | det |
| 26 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eyes | det |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 colour | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Shrí | case |
| 31 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 eyes | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | could | I | the presence of eyes such these | yet | in the colour of the eyes of Shrí | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||
| 2 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | all | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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