Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 26
While this thought passed over my mind, I lost sight of the remotest star, and the last glimmering of light was quenched in utter darkness.
Who acts: thought, I, my · What happens: pass, lose, quench, mind, sight · To what, where: mind, sight, last glimmering, utter darkness, remotest star
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, I, my), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | det |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 star | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 star | det |
| 14 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 star | amod |
| 15 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 quenched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 quenched | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 glimmering | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 glimmering | amod |
| 20 | glimmering | glimmering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 quenched | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glimmering | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 quenched | aux:pass |
| 24 | quenched | quench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lost | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 darkness | case |
| 26 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 darkness | amod |
| 27 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 quenched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | this thought | my mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over mind=Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | I | sight of the remotest star | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | quench | past · passive | the last glimmering of light | utter darkness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sight | the remotest star | nom sight «cognition 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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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