The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 117
But the merchant, when he found that she had gone, abandoned the body in his despair.
Who acts: merchant, Shrí, King · What happens: find, go, abandon, despair · To what, where: body, despair · 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 (merchant, Shrí, King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 abandoned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 abandoned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 found | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 merchant | punct |
| 13 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 abandoned | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 despair | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 despair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 abandoned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | merchant | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | Shrí | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | abandon | past | the merchant | the body | King's despair | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme body=Source | |||
| 4 | despair | King | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=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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