The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 28
And one would say: Who is this moon-struck vagabond who roams about looking for a blue-eyed beauty?
Who acts: one, struck vagabond · What happens: say, strike, be, roam, look · To what, where: struck vagabond · 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 (one, struck vagabond), 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 say | cc |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 vagabond | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 vagabond | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 vagabond | cop |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 vagabond | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 moon | punct |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 vagabond | amod |
| 12 | vagabond | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 roams | nsubj |
| 14 | roams | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 vagabond | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 looking | advmod |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 roams | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 beauty | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 beauty | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyed | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 blue | punct |
| 21 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beauty | amod |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike | participle | moon compound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | this struck vagabond | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roam | present | this struck vagabond | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | this struck vagabond not said here | for a eyed beauty; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beauty=Theme |
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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