The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 92

And yet she could not tell, how she could possibly have offended her, or deserved her anger.

Who acts: Shrí · What happens: not tell, offend, deserve, anger · To what, where: wife, anger · 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 (Shrí), 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	_	6 tell	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offended	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 offended	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offended	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 offended	aux
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	13 offended	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 offended	aux
13	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offended	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deserved	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 deserved	cc
17	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 anger	nmod:poss
19	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deserved	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	Shrí		yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offend	could · perfect	Shrí	wife		possibly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	deserve	past	Shrí not said here	Shrí's anger			tree rules
4	anger		Shrí				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 92