The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 47
Then he said to himself: What is this wonder, and who can it be that lies here, alone in this empty hall?
Who acts: moonlight, wonder · What happens: say, be · To what, where: moonlight, wonder · 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 (moonlight, wonder), 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 | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 wonder | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 wonder | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wonder | cop |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 wonder | det |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lies | cc |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lies | aux |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lies | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lies | mark |
| 18 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wonder | conj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lies | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hall | punct |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 25 hall | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hall | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 hall | det |
| 24 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hall | amod |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wonder | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | moonlight | moonlight | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this wonder and this empty hall | What nsubj; this empty hall conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | can | this wonder and this empty hall | here | body nsubj; lie property | tree rules |
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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