The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 56
And he shook himself free from her hair, and said: Beauty, I am a Rajpoot of the race of the Sun: what have I to do with a lotus of the moon?
Who acts: light, I, Sun · What happens: shake, say, be, have, do, race · To what, where: light, Rajpoot, Beauty · 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 (light, I, Sun), 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 shook | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 shook | obj |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shook | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Beauty | punct |
| 13 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rajpoot | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Rajpoot | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Rajpoot | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Rajpoot | det |
| 18 | Rajpoot | rajpoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Beauty | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Rajpoot | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sun | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sun | det |
| 24 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 race | nmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 have | obj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Beauty | parataxis |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 lotus | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lotus | det |
| 33 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 do | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 moon | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 moon | det |
| 36 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lotus | nmod |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | light | light | free property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Beauty and a Rajpoot ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a Rajpoot | of the race of the Sun | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | present | Beauty and a Rajpoot | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | I | with a lotus of the moon | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | race | the Sun | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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