The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 88
But hearing this, that merchant was overjoyed; for he thought: Indirálayá is in another quarter of the world, and I will be her husband.
Who acts: Indirálayá, I · What happens: hear, overjoy, think, be · To what, where: this, merchant, quarter, husband · 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 (Indirálayá, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 overjoyed | cc |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 overjoyed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 quarter | punct |
| 14 | Indirálayá | Indirálayá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 quarter | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quarter | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 quarter | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 quarter | det |
| 18 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quarter | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 husband | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 husband | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 husband | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 husband | cop |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overjoyed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | overjoy | past · passive | that merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Indirálayá | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Indirálayá | another quarter | of the world | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | future | I | daughter's husband | daughter nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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