The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 98
And then at last she found her voice, and spoke, and said slowly: What! is it thou, most doughty traveller?
Who acts: Shrí, union · What happens: find, speak, say, be · To what, where: voice, last, thou · 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 (Shrí, union), 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 | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 found | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | cc |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | parataxis |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 What | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 What | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thou | cop |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thou | nsubj |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 What | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 traveller | punct |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 doughty | advmod |
| 24 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 traveller | amod |
| 25 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 What | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shrí | Shrí's voice | last | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | What doughty traveller ccomp; slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | union | thou | 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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