The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 14
And he thought: Now she will consent, after a little coaxing.
Who acts: King, vain · What happens: think, consent · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, vain), 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 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 consent | punct |
| 5 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 consent | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 consent | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 consent | aux |
| 8 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coaxing | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 coaxing | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 coaxing | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 coaxing | amod |
| 13 | coaxing | coaxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 consent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | consent | future | vain | after a little coaxing; now | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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