The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 41

So she sat by the pool, grieving like a female _chakrawáka_ for her mate, while the sun made, like the enemy of Bali, but three steps over the sky.

Who acts: strength, sun · What happens: sit, grieve, make · To what, where: enemy

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 (strength, sun), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 pool	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pool	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grieving	punct
8	grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 female	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 female	det
11	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grieving	obl
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
13	chakrawáka	chakrawáka	X	Foreign=Yes	3 sat	dep
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 mate	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mate	nmod:poss
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 made	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 enemy	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 enemy	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 enemy	det
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Bali	case
28	Bali	Bali	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 enemy	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 steps	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 steps	cc
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 steps	nummod
32	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obl
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 sky	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sky	det
35	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 steps	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	strength		by the pool; for strength's mate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by pool=Location
2	grieve	gerund	strength not said here		like a female	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past	the sun	the enemy of Bali	three steps over the sky obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enemy=Product

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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 41