The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 40
For alas! every man that sees me is blinded by my eyes, and I shall not always find a door of escape from persecution.
Who acts: man, eyes, I · What happens: see, blind, not find · To what, where: me, man, door
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 (man, eyes, I), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 alas | case |
| 2 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blinded | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 alas | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blinded | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sees | nsubj |
| 7 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sees | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blinded | aux:pass |
| 10 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blinded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 find | advmod |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 blinded | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 escape | case |
| 24 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | nmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 persecution | case |
| 26 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 escape | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 blinded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | every man | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | blind | present · passive | my eyes | every man | for alas | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not find | shall | I | a door of escape from persecution | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
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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