The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 81
For who ever heard of tears that, like rivers, could flood a quarter of the world?
Who acts: rivers · What happens: hear, flood · To what, where: tears
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 (rivers), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 who | case |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 flood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rivers | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 rivers | case |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flood | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rivers | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 flood | aux |
| 13 | flood | flood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tears | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 quarter | det |
| 15 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flood | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quarter | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | ever | of tears; who nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of tear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flood | could | rivers | tears | a quarter of the world obj | 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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