The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 14
Then seeing that there was no help for it, the Swans said: Be it so: and they bound themselves to him by an oath.
Who acts: Swans, help · What happens: see, be, say, bound · To what, where: Land, Swans, help · 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 (Swans, help), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 seeing | advmod |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seeing | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 help | det |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Swans | det |
| 12 | Swans | Swan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 it | punct |
| 15 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 it | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 it | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 bound | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bound | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bound | nsubj |
| 21 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 bound | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bound | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 oath | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 oath | det |
| 27 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bound | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Swans not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no help for Land | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Swans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | Land | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bound | present | Swans = swan | Swans = swan | help | by a oath | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location themselves=Theme |
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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