The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 104
And now, I must lose no time in escaping from this infatuated sinner, or worse things may come about.
Who acts: I, worse things · What happens: lose, escape, infatuate, come about · To what, where: infatuated sinner
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 (I, worse things), 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 lose | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lose | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lose | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lose | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lose | aux |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lose | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 escaping | mark |
| 10 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lose | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sinner | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 sinner | det |
| 13 | infatuated | infatuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sinner | amod |
| 14 | sinner | sinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 escaping | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lose | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | must | I | now; time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | escape | gerund | I not said here | this infatuated sinner | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sinner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | infatuate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come about | may | worse things | about property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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