The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 9
Then said the Swans: We are carrying home the body of our king, far away to the Mánasa lake.
Who acts: We · What happens: say, carry · To what, where: Swans, body · 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 (We), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Swans | det |
| 4 | Swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 carrying | punct |
| 6 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 carrying | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carrying | aux |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 carrying | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 king | nmod:poss |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 body | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 carrying | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 20 | Mánasa | Mánasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lake | compound |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Swans | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swan=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · progressive | We | the body of our king | away, home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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