The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 84
But he said: This is no easy matter, for we are forbidden by Pashupati to do her harm.
Who acts: Torment, This, Pashupati · What happens: say, be, forbid, do, harm · To what, where: easy matter, we, harm · 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 (Torment, This, Pashupati), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 5 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 matter | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 matter | det |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 matter | amod |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbidden | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 forbidden | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forbidden | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 14 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 matter | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Pashupati | case |
| 16 | Pashupati | Pashupati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forbidden | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forbidden | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 harm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Torment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | no easy matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forbid | present · passive | Pashupati | we | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Pashupati not said here | Pashupati's harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | harm | Pashupati | nom harm «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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