The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 67
And she exclaimed: Alas! what is this mystery, and how came I into this deserted hall, and in which quarter of the world am I, and what has become of my husband?
Who acts: Shrí, Alas, I · What happens: exclaim, be, come, desert, become · To what, where: Alas, mystery, deserted hall
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 (Shrí, Alas, I), 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 | _ | 3 exclaimed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alas | punct |
| 5 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alas | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 mystery | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mystery | cop |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 mystery | det |
| 10 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Alas | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hall | det |
| 18 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hall | amod |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 am | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 am | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 quarter | case |
| 23 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 24 quarter | det |
| 24 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 am | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 quarter | nmod |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 am | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 become | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 become | cc |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 become | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 become | aux |
| 34 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 husband | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 husband | nmod:poss |
| 37 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 become | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Shrí | Alas | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent alas=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Alas | this mystery | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | I | this deserted hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | become | present · perfect | of my husband; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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