The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 23
But even as she touched his face, it changed, and became gigantic and misshapen, with a large tongue that hung out of lips that resembled those of a cow; and it broke out into loud laughter, and disappeared.
Who acts: Shrí, face, large tongue, lips · What happens: touch, change, become, hang out, resemble, break out · To what, where: face, large tongue, lips, loud laughter
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 (Shrí, face, large tongue, lips), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 touched | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 touched | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | conj |
| 14 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 misshapen | cc |
| 16 | misshapen | misshapen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gigantic | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tongue | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tongue | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tongue | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tongue | amod |
| 21 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hung | nsubj |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 lips | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lips | case |
| 26 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hung | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 resembled | nsubj |
| 28 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lips | acl:relcl |
| 29 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 resembled | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cow | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 cow | det |
| 32 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 those | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 broke | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 broke | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 broke | nsubj |
| 36 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | parataxis |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 broke | compound:prt |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 laughter | case |
| 39 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 laughter | amod |
| 40 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 broke | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 disappeared | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disappeared | cc |
| 43 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 broke | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Shrí | sight's face | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | face | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | face not said here | a large tongue | gigantic property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | hang out | past | a large tongue | lips | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 5 | resemble | past | lips | lips | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | break out | past | face | into loud laughter result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into laughter=Result | ||||
| 7 | disappear | past | face not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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