The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 102
Then Shrí said to herself: Alas for my beauty, which is a curse and no blessing to me, in that it has placed me in the power of this headstrong merchant!
Who acts: Shrí, beauty · What happens: say, be, place · To what, where: Shrí, curse, blessing, power · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shrí, beauty), 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 | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alas | punct |
| 7 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 placed | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 beauty | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Alas | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 curse | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 curse | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 curse | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 curse | det |
| 15 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beauty | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blessing | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 blessing | det |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beauty | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 blessing | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 placed | punct |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 placed | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 in | fixed |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 placed | aux |
| 26 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 placed | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 power | det |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 placed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 merchant | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 merchant | det |
| 33 | headstrong | headstrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 merchant | amod |
| 34 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 power | nmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shrí | Shrí | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | my beauty and a curse and no blessing to me | a curse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | place | present · perfect · passive | blessing | the power of this headstrong merchant | Alas for my beauty and a curse and no blessing to me obl; me obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination |
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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