The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 106

But tell me first, before I die: How comes it that I see thee here alive, and yet I saw thee, in that Lotus City, lying dead upon a couch. in the cold rays of the moon?

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, die, come, see, lie, ray · To what, where: me, death, thee, Lotus City, couch, moon · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 die	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 die	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 die	nsubj
8	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 comes	advmod
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 die	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 comes	advcl
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 see	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 see	advmod
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 see	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 saw	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 die	conj
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 City	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 City	case
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 City	mark
28	Lotus	Lotus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 City	compound
29	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lying	punct
31	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 saw	conj
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lying	xcomp
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 couch	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 couch	det
35	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lying	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 die	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 rays	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rays	det
39	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rays	amod
40	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 die	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 moon	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 moon	det
43	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 rays	nmod
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	die	present	I					in the cold rays of the moon	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ray=Attribute
3	come	present	I not said here	death					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	see	present	I	thee		here		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
5	see	past	I	thee		Lotus City	yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
6	lie	gerund	I not said here			a couch		dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location
7	ray			the moon					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 5, sentence 106