The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 5
Instantly she stopped, and stood, balanced in the swing of vacillation.
Who acts: moon, vacillation · What happens: stop, stand, balance, swing · To what, where: swing
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 (moon, vacillation), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 balanced | punct |
| 8 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 swing | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swing | det |
| 11 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 balanced | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 vacillation | case |
| 13 | vacillation | vacillation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swing | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | moon | instantly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | moon not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | balance | participle | moon not said here | the swing of vacillation | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swing=Location | ||||
| 4 | swing | vacillation | nom swing «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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