The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 39
Tell me, for thou hast seen other women, hast thou ever met with eyes more beautiful than mine?
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: tell, see, have, meet · To what, where: me, other women · 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 (you, thou), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 women | amod |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hast | punct |
| 11 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 met | nsubj |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 met | advmod |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hast | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 met | obl |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 met | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 mine | case |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beautiful | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | thou | other women | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | meet | past | thou | ever | with eyes; beautiful property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with eye=Co-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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