The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 9
And he sprang up, and ran towards her, while she remained unable to stir, and took her in his arms, while she shrank from his embrace.
Who acts: fear, moon · What happens: spring up, run, remain, stir, take, shrink · To what, where: moon, arms
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 (fear, moon), 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 | _ | 3 sprang | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remained | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 remained | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remained | nsubj |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 14 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remained | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stir | mark |
| 16 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unable | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 arms | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shrank | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 shrank | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shrank | nsubj |
| 27 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 embrace | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 embrace | nmod:poss |
| 30 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shrank | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | fear | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | fear not said here | towards moon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | moon | unable property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stir | to-infinitive | moon not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | take | past | fear not said here | moon | fear's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 6 | shrink | past | moon | from fear's embrace | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from embrace=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | embrace | fear | nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=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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