The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 22
And he bent down, and she raised her face with a smile, saying to herself: It was nothing but a dream.
Who acts: sight, Shrí, face · What happens: bend down, raise, say, be · To what, where: face, Shrí, nothing · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Shrí, face), 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 | _ | 3 bent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 bent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 raised | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 raised | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 raised | nsubj |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bent | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 smile | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 smile | det |
| 13 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 raised | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 raised | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 saying | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 nothing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 nothing | cop |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 bent | parataxis |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 dream | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend down | past | sight | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Shrí | Shrí's face | with a smile | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with smile=Instrument | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Shrí not said here | Shrí | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | face | nothing | a dream conj | tree rules |
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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