The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 113
And instantly the King lost his senses, and said to the _mahout_: Do as she bids thee.
Who acts: King, mahout · What happens: lose, say, do, bid · To what, where: senses, thee · 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 (King, mahout), 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 | _ | 5 lost | cc |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 senses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mahout | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mahout | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 mahout | punct |
| 14 | mahout | mahout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Do | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 bids | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bids | nsubj |
| 20 | bids | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Do | advcl |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 bids | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the King | King's senses | instantly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | to the mahout | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to mahout=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bid | present | mahout | thee | 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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