The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 55
His white clothes were stained and splashed all over with red, for the Holi festival had left its mark on him.
Who acts: festival · What happens: stain, splash, leave, mark · To what, where: white clothes, Holi festival
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festival), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clothes | amod |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 stained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stained | aux:pass |
| 5 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 splashed | cc |
| 7 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stained | conj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 over | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 splashed | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 red | case |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 splashed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 festival | det |
| 15 | Holi | Holi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 festival | compound |
| 16 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stained | parataxis |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mark | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stain | past · passive | name's white clothes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | splash | participle | with red; over property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with red=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the Holi festival | on name; festival's mark obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mark=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | mark | festival | nom mark «cognition 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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