The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 63
For out of the shadow of her floating hair her great eyes glittered in the moon like the blade of his own sword, and flashed into the night before her like lightning from a dark blue cloud.
What happens: float, glitter, flash, shadow · To what, where: great eyes, moon, dark blue cloud, floating hair
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 | _ | 5 shadow | case |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 shadow | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 shadow | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shadow | nmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hair | conj |
| 13 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 eyes | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 blade | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blade | det |
| 19 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glittered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sword | amod |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blade | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flashed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flashed | cc |
| 26 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shadow | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flashed | obl |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 lightning | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 lightning | nmod:poss |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 lightning | case |
| 33 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flashed | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 cloud | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cloud | det |
| 36 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cloud | amod |
| 37 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cloud | amod |
| 38 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flashed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | woman's great eyes not said here | the moon | like the blade of Umra's own sword | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moon=Location | |||
| 3 | flash | participle | a dark blue cloud | before woman's lightning; night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before lightning=Location | ||||
| 5 | shadow | woman's floating hair and woman's great eyes | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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