The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 95
And her heart beat violently, as if to say: Let me abandon thy body, and so escape the danger coming on thee.
Who acts: heart, me · What happens: beat, say, let, abandon, escape, come · To what, where: me, body, danger, thee · 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 (heart, 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 | _ | 4 beat | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 4 beat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beat | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 abandon | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 escape | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 escape | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 escape | advmod |
| 20 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Let | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 danger | det |
| 22 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escape | obj |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 escape | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 thee | case |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 coming | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | Shrí's heart | violently property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shrí's heart not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | abandon | infinitive | me not said here | thy body | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme body=Source | ||||
| 5 | escape | infinitive | the danger | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | thee | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thou=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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