The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 82
But in the meanwhile, before I find my death in these rising waters, it is better to take refuge in a tree.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: find, rise, be, take, die · To what, where: death, rising waters, refuge, tree, meanwhile
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 (I, my), 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 | _ | 4 meanwhile | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 meanwhile | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meanwhile | det |
| 4 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meanwhile | parataxis |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 waters | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 waters | det |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 waters | amod |
| 14 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 better | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 better | cop |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 find | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 better | csubj |
| 21 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meanwhile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | my death | this rising waters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Topic | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | refuge | a tree | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in tree=Location | ||||
| 6 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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