The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 61

And he said: O daughter of a Daitya, thou speakest the truth: yet a vessel that is full can hold no more, be the liquor what it may, and such is my heart.

Who acts: fury, thou, vessel · What happens: say, speak, be, hold · To what, where: truth, more, liquor, such heart · 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 (fury, thou, vessel), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
5	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 daughter	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Daitya	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Daitya	det
9	Daitya	Daitya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speakest	punct
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 speakest	nsubj
12	speakest	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 daughter	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speakest	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	23 hold	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 vessel	det
18	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 full	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vessel	acl:relcl
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hold	aux
23	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 hold	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 liquor	punct
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 liquor	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 liquor	det
29	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 liquor	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 may	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 heart	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heart	cc
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 heart	amod
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 heart	cop
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heart	nmod:poss
38	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fury		daughter of a Daitya nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	thou	the truth		tree rules
3	is	present	a vessel		full property	tree rules
4	hold	can	a vessel	more		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
5	is a	infinitive		the liquor	what obj	tree rules
6	is a	present		my such heart	my nmod:poss	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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 61