The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 41
And he said to himself: She may well ask, and now, but for one other pair, her eyes need fear no rivals.
Who acts: Shrí, cow, eyes · What happens: say, ask, need · To what, where: Shrí, fear · 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 (Shrí, cow, eyes), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 now | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 now | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 ask | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 need | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 need | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 pair | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pair | nummod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pair | amod |
| 19 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 need | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pair | punct |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | nsubj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | advcl |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 need | obj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 rivals | det |
| 26 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fear | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shrí | Shrí | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | may | cow | now | well property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | need | present | cow's eyes | fear and no rivals | for one other pair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fear=Theme |
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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