The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 53
Therefore delude them if you will, but beware that you touch not a hair of their heads.
Who acts: you · What happens: delude, beware, not touch · To what, where: lamentations, hair
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 (you), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 delude | advmod |
| 2 | delude | delude | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 delude | obj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 will | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 will | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 delude | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beware | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 beware | cc |
| 9 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 delude | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 touch | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 touch | nsubj |
| 12 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beware | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 touch | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hair | det |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heads | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hair | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 delude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delude | imperative | you not said here | lamentations = lamentation | therefore property | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | beware | infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not touch | present | you | a hair of lamentations's heads | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-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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