The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 44

And then, in the dead of night, she awoke, and sat up, and looked, and lo! there in the moonlight she saw him again, silently sitting beside her.

Who acts: strength · What happens: awake, sit up, look, see, sit · To what, where: husband

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), 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	_	6 dead	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dead	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dead	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dead	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 awoke	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awoke	nsubj
11	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 awoke	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 there	cc
21	lo	lo	INTJ	_	23 there	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dead	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 moonlight	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 moonlight	det
26	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 there	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 moonlight	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 saw	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sitting	punct
32	silently	silently	ADV	_	33 sitting	advmod
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 there	conj
34	beside	beside	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sitting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	strength				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit up	past	strength not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	strength not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	strength	husband	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund				beside strength; silently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location

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 tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 44