The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 78
And she said to herself: Ha! so this is that absent lotus of the day, by reason of whom my beauty was scorned, and set at nought by the handsome stranger who saw me dancing by my pool.
Who acts: Ulupí, this, handsome stranger, me · What happens: say, be, scorn, set, see, dance · To what, where: Ulupí, absent lotus, beauty, nought, me · 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 (Ulupí, this, handsome stranger, me), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 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 | _ | 7 Ha | punct |
| 7 | Ha | Ha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ha | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 lotus | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lotus | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lotus | cop |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lotus | det |
| 13 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lotus | amod |
| 14 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lotus | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reason | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 reason | case |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lotus | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 reason | nmod |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scorned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 scorned | aux:pass |
| 26 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 nought | case |
| 31 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 set | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 stranger | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 stranger | det |
| 34 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stranger | amod |
| 35 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 saw | nsubj |
| 37 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 saw | obj |
| 39 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 saw | xcomp |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 pool | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pool | nmod:poss |
| 42 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dancing | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ulupí | Ulupí | Ha ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | that absent lotus and reason of that absent lotus and reason of that absent lotus | day | reason of that absent lotus and reason of that absent lotus and reason conj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | scorn | past · passive | my beauty | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Ulupí not said here | nought | by the handsome stranger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at nought=Destination | |||
| 5 | see | past | the handsome stranger | me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | dance | gerund | me not said here | by my pool | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pool=Location |
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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