The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 49
Then said the Great Ascetic: There is in this wood a lover looking for his bride.
Who acts: Great Ascetic, lover · What happens: say, be, look · To what, where: wood · 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 (Great Ascetic, lover), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ascetic | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Ascetic | amod |
| 5 | Ascetic | Ascetic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lover | det |
| 13 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wood | conj |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lover | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bride | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Great Ascetic | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | this wood and a lover; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a lover not said here | for Lord's bride | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bride=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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