The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 4
But the King paid no heed to her words, which entered at his ear, but never reached his mind.
Who acts: King, words, Shrí · What happens: pay, enter, not reach, word, mind · To what, where: heed, ear, mind
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, words, Shrí), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 heed | det |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entered | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 ear | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 reached | advmod |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the King | no heed | to Shrí's words | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Shrí's words | King's ear | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not reach | past | the King not said here | King's mind | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | Shrí | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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