The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 37
Hast thou, like the desert, no pity for the antelope that is dying of thirst for the water of thine eyes[1]?
Who acts: desert · What happens: have, die · To what, where: thou
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 (desert), 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 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Hast | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 desert | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 desert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 desert | det |
| 6 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hast | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pity | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 pity | det |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desert | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 antelope | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 antelope | det |
| 12 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pity | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dying | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dying | aux |
| 15 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 desert | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thirst | case |
| 17 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dying | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 water | conj |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 25 1 | punct |
| 25 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 eyes | flat |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 1 | punct |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | the desert and no pity for the antelope parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | present · progressive | the desert and no pity for the antelope | of thirst; for the water and thine eyes | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |
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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