The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 82
But Ulupí flew through the wood, and found Nightwalker, the old Wairágí, and told him all, and begged of him a boon, saying: Torment this miserable mortal woman, and deceive her with illusions for she has done me deadly injury.
Who acts: Ulupí, this · What happens: fly, find, tell, beg, say, woman · To what, where: wood, Nightwalker, Wretch, boon, Torment, Ulupí · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 flew | cc |
| 2 | Ulupí | Ulupí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | Nightwalker | Nightwalker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Wairágí | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wairágí | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wairágí | amod |
| 14 | Wairágí | Wairágí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nightwalker | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 him | det |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 begged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 begged | cc |
| 22 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 begged | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boon | det |
| 26 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 begged | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 begged | advcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Torment | punct |
| 30 | Torment | Torment | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 saying | obj |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 woman | nsubj |
| 32 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 33 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 34 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 deceive | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 deceive | cc |
| 37 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flew | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 deceive | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 illusions | case |
| 40 | illusions | illusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 deceive | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 done | case |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 43 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 deceive | advcl |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 done | iobj |
| 46 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 injury | amod |
| 47 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 done | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Ulupí | the wood | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Ulupí not said here | Nightwalker and the old Wairágí | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightwalker=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Ulupí not said here | Wretch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Ulupí not said here | a boon | of Wretch | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ulupí not said here | Torment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent torment=Topic | ||||
| 6 | woman | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | deceive | infinitive | Ulupí not said here | Ulupí | with illusions | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 8 | do | present · perfect | Ulupí | deadly injury | me | tree rules |
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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