The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 40
Then his consort said to him in a cajoling tone: What is the matter? tell me.
Who acts: consort, cajoling tone · What happens: say, cajole, be, tell · To what, where: antelope, cajoling tone, matter, me · 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 (consort, cajoling tone), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 consort | nmod:poss |
| 3 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tone | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tone | det |
| 9 | cajoling | cajole | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 tone | amod |
| 10 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 matter | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 matter | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tone | appos |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | antelope's consort | antelope | a cajoling tone | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | cajole | gerund | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a cajoling tone | the matter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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