The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 14
The hermit asks, as we might say, for _the source of the Nile_.
Who acts: hermit, we · What happens: ask, say · 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 (hermit, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hermit | det |
| 2 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 source | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 source | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 for | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 source | det |
| 13 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Nile | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Nile | det |
| 16 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 source | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the hermit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | might | we | the source of the Nile ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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