The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 93
And the merchant in his delight counted the whole world as a straw, thinking he had got her for a wife.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: count, think, get, delight · To what, where: whole world, Shrí · 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 (merchant), 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 | _ | 7 counted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counted | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 delight | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 delight | nmod:poss |
| 6 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 merchant | nmod |
| 7 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counted | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 straw | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 straw | det |
| 13 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 counted | advcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 wife | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wife | det |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | the merchant in merchant's delight | the whole world | as a straw | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent world=Theme as straw=Attribute | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the merchant in merchant's delight not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | merchant | Shrí | for a wife | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | delight | merchant | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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