The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 73
And a tawny lion leaped out of the wood, before the eyes of Umra-Singh, and stood over her as she lay.
Who acts: tawny lion, lion · What happens: leap out, stand, lay · To what, where: wood
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 (tawny lion, lion), 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 | _ | 5 leaped | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 3 | tawny | tawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lion | amod |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | nsubj |
| 5 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaped | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Umra | case |
| 15 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Singh | punct |
| 17 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Umra | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaped | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 lay | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stood | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap out | participle | a tawny lion | the wood | the eyes of Umra and Singh conj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a tawny lion not said here | over lion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | lion | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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