The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 39
It were better, now that I am here, to examine it, and learn its peculiarities, that I may not twice meet with the treatment due to impostors.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, examine, learn, not meet · To what, where: lotus, peculiarities
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 examine | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 examine | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 here | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 here | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 here | cop |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 now | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 examine | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 examine | mark |
| 12 | examine | examine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 examine | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 learn | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 learn | cc |
| 16 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 examine | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 peculiarities | nmod:poss |
| 18 | peculiarities | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 learn | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 meet | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 meet | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 meet | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 meet | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 meet | advmod |
| 24 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 meet | advmod |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 learn | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 treatment | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 treatment | det |
| 28 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | obl |
| 29 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 31 impostors | case |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 due | fixed |
| 31 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 meet | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive | lotus | now | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | infinitive | lotus's peculiarities | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not meet | may | I | with the treatment; due impostors; twice property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with treatment=Co-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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