The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 79
Art thou also wrenched with grief, that thou sprinklest me with the salt tears of thy spray?
Who acts: that · What happens: wrench, sprinkle · To what, where: thou, me
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 (that), 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 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrenched | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wrenched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 wrenched | advmod |
| 4 | wrenched | wrench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrenched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprinklest | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sprinklest | nsubj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 sprinklest | nsubj |
| 10 | sprinklest | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrenched | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sprinklest | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tears | det |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | compound |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sprinklest | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spray | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 spray | nmod:poss |
| 18 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrench | present · passive | thou | with grief | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | present | that | me | with the salt tears of thy spray; thou nsubj | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with tear=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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