The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 88
For unless this extraordinary tree has no top, I must presently reach it, and meet with my death at the same time.
Who acts: extraordinary tree, I, my · What happens: have, reach, meet, die · To what, where: top
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 (extraordinary tree, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 2 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 reach | advmod |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 meet | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meet | cc |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reach | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 death | nmod:poss |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | this extraordinary tree | no top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | must | I | top | presently property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | infinitive | I not said here | time | with my death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | 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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