The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 7
I have escaped the lesser danger only to incur the greater, and become the prey of this unrighteous King.
Who acts: I · What happens: escape, incur, become · To what, where: lesser danger, greater, prey
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 escaped | aux |
| 3 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 danger | det |
| 5 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 danger | amod |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 escaped | obj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 incur | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 incur | mark |
| 9 | incur | incur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 escaped | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 greater | det |
| 11 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 incur | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 become | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 become | cc |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 incur | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prey | det |
| 16 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 become | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 King | nsubj |
| 19 | unrighteous | unrighteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 King | amod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 prey | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present · perfect | I | the lesser danger | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | incur | to-infinitive | I not said here | the greater | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | I not said here | the prey of unrighteous King this | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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