The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 59
So they debated about her, and proposed to each other to draw lots for her.
Who acts: drops · What happens: debate, propose, draw · To what, where: each, lots
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 (drops), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 debated | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 debated | nsubj |
| 3 | debated | debate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 debated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proposed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 proposed | cc |
| 8 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 debated | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 proposed | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 proposed | advcl |
| 14 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 draw | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 draw | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 debated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | debate | participle | drops = drop | about spell | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | propose | participle | drops = drop not said here | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | drops = drop not said here | lots | for spell | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lot=Result for she=Beneficiary |
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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