The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 109

Then she called to the _mahout_: Come nearer, O driver of the elephant: for I am anxious to taste the delight of riding on an elephant.

Who acts: deliverance, I, riding · What happens: call, come, be, taste, delight · To what, where: mahout, driver, delight · 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 (deliverance, I, riding), 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 called	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 mahout	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mahout	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 mahout	punct
7	mahout	mahout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
10	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
11	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 Come	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 driver	punct
13	O	o	INTJ	_	14 driver	discourse
14	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Come	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 elephant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elephant	det
17	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 driver	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 anxious	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 anxious	case
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 anxious	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 anxious	cop
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 taste	mark
24	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 anxious	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 delight	det
26	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taste	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 riding	case
28	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 delight	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 elephant	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 elephant	det
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 riding	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	deliverance		the mahout	then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mahout=Recipient
2	come	infinitive	deliverance not said here	driver of the elephant			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	I				anxious property	tree rules
4	taste	to-infinitive	I not said here	the delight of riding on a elephant				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme delight=Attribute
5	delight		riding on a elephant					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 109