The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 22
And yet she told me we should meet again, to keep me from despair.
Who acts: bride, we · What happens: tell, meet, keep · To what, where: me, 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 (bride, we), 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 | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | aux |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 meet | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meet | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | bride | me | yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | meet | should | we | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | we not said here | me | despair | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary from despair=Eventuality |
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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