The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 75
He continued to gaze steadily at the burning pyre, in silence, and I did the same.
Who acts: Hindoo, I · What happens: continue, gaze, burn, do · To what, where: same
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 (Hindoo, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 gaze | mark |
| 4 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 4 gaze | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 pyre | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pyre | det |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 pyre | amod |
| 9 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaze | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 silence | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 silence | case |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pyre | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 did | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 did | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Hindoo | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | gaze | to-infinitive | Hindoo not said here | at the burning pyre and silence; steadily property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pyre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | I | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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