The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 8
Whence come ye, and whither go ye, and what is this dead golden body that ye carry as ye go?
Who acts: ye · What happens: come, go, be, carry · To what, where: dead golden body
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 (ye), 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 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 come | advmod |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 come | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 6 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 go | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 body | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 body | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 body | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 body | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 body | nsubj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carry | obj |
| 18 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 body | acl:relcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carry | xcomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | ye | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | ye | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | dead golden body | what nsubj; this nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | ye | dead golden body | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | ye | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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