The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 21

Now contrive my escape, for I am the wife of another, and I may not be his wife.

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: contrive, be, not be, escape · To what, where: escape, wife

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 (you, I, my), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 contrive	advmod
2	contrive	contrive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 escape	nmod:poss
4	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrive	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wife	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wife	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrive	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 wife	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wife	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wife	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wife	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wife	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wife	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 wife	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contrive	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	contrive	imperative	you not said here	my escape	now		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Result
2	is	present	I			for the wife; of another	tree rules
3	not is a	may	I	King's wife		King nmod:poss	tree rules
4	escape		my				nom escape «act 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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 21