The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 4
I will waste no more time expecting to hear from thee my way to the Land of the Lotus, but find it in spite of thee.
Who acts: I, more time · What happens: waste, expect, hear, find, spite · To what, where: way, thee, Lotus, spite
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, more time), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 waste | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 waste | aux |
| 3 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waste | obj |
| 7 | expecting | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expecting | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 hear | obl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Land | det |
| 16 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Lotus | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lotus | det |
| 19 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Land | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waste | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 spite | case |
| 25 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 thee | case |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 spite | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | future | I | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | expect | gerund | more time not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | more time not said here | my way | thee | to the Land of the Lotus | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from thou=Source | ||
| 4 | find | present | Lotus | spite of thee | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | spite | thee | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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