The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 121
Should the lioness, forsooth! mate with the jackal?
To what, where: lioness forsooth mate
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: 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lioness | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lioness | det |
| 3 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lioness | punct |
| 5 | forsooth | forsooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mate | amod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 forsooth | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 jackal | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jackal | det |
| 10 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mate | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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