The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 77
So as they were preparing to take him to the King, he clapped his hands, and said again: Quick! delay not! but make haste, great haste! or else my heart will break.
Who acts: criers, Indirálayá, Quick delay, heart · What happens: prepare, take, clap, say, not make, break · To what, where: Indirálayá, King, hands, haste · 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 (criers, Indirálayá, Quick delay, heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 clapped | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 preparing | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 preparing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 preparing | aux |
| 5 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 clapped | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 preparing | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 preparing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clapped | nsubj |
| 14 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clapped | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clapped | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 delay | punct |
| 22 | Quick | Quick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 delay | compound |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Quick | punct |
| 24 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clapped | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 make | advmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 delay | acl:relcl |
| 29 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 haste | punct |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 haste | amod |
| 32 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 haste | conj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 break | cc |
| 35 | else | else | ADV | _ | 39 break | advmod |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 break | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 break | aux |
| 39 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · progressive | criers = crier | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | criers = crier not said here | Indirálayá | the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 3 | clap | past | Indirálayá | Indirálayá's hands | Quick delay parataxis | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Indirálayá not said here | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not make | infinitive | Quick delay not said here | haste and great haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 6 | break | future | my heart | else property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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