The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 100
And their images forsook the mirror of his eyes, and faded away from his mind, like the shadow of a cloud travelling over the surface of a great lake, and vanished, and were utterly forgotten.
Who acts: images, cloud, sages, Master · What happens: forsake, fade away, travel, vanish, forget, image · To what, where: mirror, mind, surface, cloud
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, An Evil Eye.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (images, cloud, sages, Master), 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 | _ | 4 forsook | cc |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 images | nmod:poss |
| 3 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forsook | nsubj |
| 4 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mirror | det |
| 6 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forsook | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mirror | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 faded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 faded | cc |
| 12 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forsook | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 faded | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 faded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shadow | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 shadow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shadow | det |
| 20 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 faded | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cloud | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cloud | det |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shadow | nmod |
| 24 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 cloud | acl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 surface | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 surface | det |
| 27 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travelling | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lake | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lake | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lake | amod |
| 31 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 surface | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 vanished | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 vanished | cc |
| 34 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forsook | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 forgotten | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 forgotten | cc |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 38 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 39 forgotten | advmod |
| 39 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 vanished | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past | sages's images | the mirror of Master's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fade away | past | sages's images not said here | Master's mind | the shadow of a cloud parataxis; away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | travel | gerund | a cloud not said here | the surface of a great lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over surface=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | vanish | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | forget | past · passive | utterly property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | image | sages = sage | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | mind | Master | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | shadow | a cloud | 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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