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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 7

And she wavered and swayed on her feet, like a young shoot fanned by opposing breezes: while large tears fell from her eyes, like drops of camphor from a moonstone[1].

Who acts: moon, large tears · What happens: waver, sway, fan, oppose, fall · To what, where: feet, young shoot, breezes, eyes

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, large tears), 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

ccnsubjccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctcasedetamodoblaclmarkadvclobjpunctmarkamodnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctcaseoblcasenmodcasedetnmodpunctflatpunctpunctrootAndCCONJshePRONwaveredVERBandCCONJswayedVERBonADPherPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTlikeADPaDETyoungADJshootNOUNfannedVERBbySCONJopposingVERBbreezesNOUN:PUNCTwhileSCONJlargeADJtearsNOUNfellVERBfromADPherPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCTlikeADPdropsNOUNofADPcamphorNOUNfromADPaDETmoonstoneNOUN[PUNCT1NUM]PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 waveredcc
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 waverednsubj
3waveredwaverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4andandCCONJ_5 swayedcc
5swayedswayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 waveredconj
6ononADP_8 feetcase
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 feetnmod:poss
8feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur5 swayedobl
9,,PUNCT_13 shootpunct
10likelikeADP_13 shootcase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 shootdet
12youngyoungADJDegree=Pos13 shootamod
13shootshootNOUNNumber=Sing5 swayedobl
14fannedfanVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 shootacl
15bybySCONJ_16 opposingmark
16opposingopposeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 fannedadvcl
17breezesbreezeNOUNNumber=Plur16 opposingobj
18::PUNCT_22 fellpunct
19whilewhileSCONJ_22 fellmark
20largelargeADJDegree=Pos21 tearsamod
21tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur22 fellnsubj
22fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 waveredconj
23fromfromADP_25 eyescase
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 eyesnmod:poss
25eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur22 fellobl
26,,PUNCT_28 dropspunct
27likelikeADP_28 dropscase
28dropsdropNOUNNumber=Plur22 fellobl
29ofofADP_30 camphorcase
30camphorcamphorNOUNNumber=Sing28 dropsnmod
31fromfromADP_33 moonstonecase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 moonstonedet
33moonstonemoonstoneNOUNNumber=Sing28 dropsnmod
34[[PUNCT_35 1punct
3511NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card33 moonstoneflat
36]]PUNCT_35 1punct
37..PUNCT_3 waveredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1waverpastmoonvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2swaypastmoon not said heremoon's feetlike a young shootvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
3fanparticiplea young shoot not said heretree rules
4opposegerundbreezesvn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Patient
5fallpastlarge tearsmoon's eyeslike drops of camphor from a moonstonevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_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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