The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 39
For she said to herself: If I remain in the city, I may fall again into the power of the King, or, it may be, of someone still worse.
Who acts: Shrí, I, city · What happens: say, remain, fall, be · To what, where: Shrí, city, power · 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 (Shrí, I, city), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 remain | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remain | nsubj |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remain | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remain | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | aux |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 fall | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 power | det |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 power | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 be | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 be | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 or | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 be | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 be | aux |
| 29 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fall | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 someone | punct |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 someone | case |
| 32 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 fall | obl |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 34 worse | advmod |
| 34 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 someone | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shrí | Shrí | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | remain a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | may | I | the power of the King | again | of someone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into power=Initial_Location of someone=Destination | ||
| 4 | be | may | city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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