The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 100
Good it had better be, thy second tale, for never shall thou live to make a third.
Who acts: story, thou · What happens: goo, have, be, not live, make · To what, where: better second tale, third
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, thou), 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 | Good | goo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 tale | amod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tale | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 tale | nmod:poss |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 live | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 live | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 third | det |
| 19 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goo | past | story not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | thy better second tale | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not live | shall | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | thou not said here | a third | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset third=Product |
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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