The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 42
But he said to her: Beauty[5], thine eyes are well enough: nevertheless the ocean has many gems, and doubtless each thinks itself the best: but the Koustubha[6] is above them all.
Who acts: Shrí, eyes, ocean, each, Koustubha · What happens: say, be, have, think · To what, where: Beauty, cow, many gems, ocean · 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, eyes, ocean, each), 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 | But | but | 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 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Beauty | punct |
| 7 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 5 | punct |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Beauty | appos |
| 10 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 5 | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enough | punct |
| 12 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 enough | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 enough | cop |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 enough | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 Beauty | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 18 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 21 has | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ocean | det |
| 20 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 doubtless | advcl |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gems | amod |
| 23 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 doubtless | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 doubtless | cc |
| 26 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | conj |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 thinks | nsubj |
| 28 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 doubtless | ccomp |
| 29 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 thinks | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 best | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 thinks | ccomp |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 them | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 them | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Koustubha | det |
| 35 | Koustubha | Koustubha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 them | nsubj |
| 36 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 37 6 | punct |
| 37 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 Koustubha | appos |
| 38 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 37 6 | punct |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 them | cop |
| 40 | above | above | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | ccomp |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shrí | Beauty | cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | thine eyes | enough, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the ocean | many gems | nevertheless property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Patient | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | each | ocean | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot itself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the Koustubha | above eyes = eye; all nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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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