The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 118
Then as soon as they reached the palace, the King said to Shrí: What is thy name and family?
Who acts: things, King · What happens: reach, say, be · To what, where: palace, Shrí, name · 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 (things, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 soon | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 said | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 soon | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soon | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Shrí | case |
| 14 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 name | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 name | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 name | cop |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 family | cc |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 name | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | things = thing | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Shrí | then | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shrí=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is a | present | thy name and family | What nsubj; thy nmod:poss; family conj | 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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