The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 48
And when they had mustered, they enquired humbly of that Lord of Creatures animate and inanimate: What orders has the Lord of All for his servants, and why are we now summoned?
Who acts: honey, Creatures · What happens: muster, enquire, animate, order, summon · To what, where: Lord, All, we
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 (honey, Creatures), 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 | _ | 8 enquired | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 mustered | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mustered | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mustered | aux |
| 5 | mustered | muster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 enquired | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mustered | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 enquired | nsubj |
| 8 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 8 enquired | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Lord | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Lord | det |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 enquired | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Creatures | case |
| 14 | Creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 animate | nsubj |
| 15 | animate | animate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Lord | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inanimate | cc |
| 17 | inanimate | inanimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Lord | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 orders | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 orders | nsubj |
| 20 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enquired | parataxis |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 All | aux |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lord | det |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 All | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 All | case |
| 25 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 orders | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 servants | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 servants | nmod:poss |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 All | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 summoned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 summoned | cc |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 summoned | advmod |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 summoned | aux:pass |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 summoned | advmod |
| 35 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 orders | conj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 enquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muster | past · perfect | honey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enquire speech: other | past | honey | of that Lord; humbly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of lord=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | animate | present | Creatures | that Lord not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lord=Patient | ||||
| 4 | order | present | All the Lord | for Lord's servants; What nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent all=Theme for servant=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | summon | present · passive | we | now | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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