The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 8
Now there is no help for me, save in stratagem, and the natural craft of woman.
Who acts: help, you · What happens: be, save, craft · To what, where: natural craft, stratagem, woman
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 (help, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 save | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stratagem | case |
| 11 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 save | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 craft | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 craft | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 craft | det |
| 15 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 craft | amod |
| 16 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 save | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 craft | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no help for me | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | save | imperative | you not said here | the natural craft of woman | stratagem | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | craft | woman | nom craft «act transitive»: of=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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