The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 99
Then said the merchant: Thou shalt marry me whether thou wilt or not: and I care nothing for piety or impiety, but only for thy wonderful eyes.
Who acts: Thou, I · What happens: say, marry, care · To what, where: merchant, me, nothing · 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 (Thou, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 marry | punct |
| 6 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | aux |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 marry | obj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 wilt | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 wilt | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 8 marry | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 not | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wilt | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 care | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 care | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 care | nsubj |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 care | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 piety | case |
| 21 | piety | piety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 impiety | cc |
| 23 | impiety | impiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eyes | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 eyes | cc |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 eyes | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eyes | amod |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 care | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the merchant | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | shall | Thou | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | care | present | I | nothing impiety | for piety; for thy wonderful eyes | 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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