The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 46
For there stood before her another husband on the other side.
What happens: stand
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 there | case |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | obl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 husband | det |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | participle | before strength's husband on the other side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before husband=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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