The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 16
And he left her to perform his kingly duties, intending to return without delay, and thinking the fruit of his birth attained.
Who acts: King, thinking · What happens: leave, perform, intend, return, think, attain · To what, where: vain, kingly duties, fruit
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, thinking), 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 left | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perform | mark |
| 6 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 duties | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 duties | amod |
| 9 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 perform | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 intending | punct |
| 11 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 intending | xcomp |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 delay | case |
| 15 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 attained | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 attained | cc |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 attained | csubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fruit | det |
| 20 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinking | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 birth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 birth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fruit | nmod |
| 24 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | King | vain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's kingly duties | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intend | gerund | King not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | without delay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | the fruit of King's birth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fruit=Theme | |||||
| 6 | attain | past | thinking | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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