The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 75
And he leaped out of the water, and ran up the steps like one that is mad, and went up to the criers, and said to them: Cease this useless crying, and this empty beating of drums, and take me quickly to the King, for I have seen that Lotus Land.
Who acts: Indirálayá, I · What happens: leap out, run up, be, go up, say, cease · To what, where: water, steps, criers, useless crying, me, King · 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 (Indirálayá, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 leaped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 steps | det |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ran | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 steps | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mad | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mad | cop |
| 18 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 criers | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 criers | det |
| 25 | criers | crier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Cease | punct |
| 32 | Cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | conj |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 crying | det |
| 34 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 crying | amod |
| 35 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Cease | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 beating | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 beating | cc |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 beating | det |
| 39 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beating | amod |
| 40 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 drums | case |
| 42 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 beating | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 take | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 take | cc |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaped | parataxis |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 take | obj |
| 47 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 45 take | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 King | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 King | det |
| 50 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 seen | punct |
| 52 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 55 seen | mark |
| 53 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 seen | nsubj |
| 54 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 seen | aux |
| 55 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 take | conj |
| 56 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 Land | mark |
| 57 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Land | compound |
| 58 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 seen | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap out | past | Indirálayá | the water | this empty beating of drums obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run up | past | Indirálayá not said here | the steps | like one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | present | mad property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go up | past | Indirálayá not said here | to the criers | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | criers = crier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | cease | infinitive | this useless crying | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crying=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | take | infinitive | me | the King | quickly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 8 | see | present · perfect | I | Lotus Land | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | beat | drums | nom beating «act 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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