The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 20

And as he went, he looked before him, and suddenly he saw a woman, floating on a pool of white lotuses, in a boat of sandal, with silver oars.

Who acts: Maheshwara · What happens: go, look, see, float · To what, where: woman, pool

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 (Maheshwara), 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	_	7 looked	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 floating	punct
18	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 saw	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 pool	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pool	det
21	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floating	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lotuses	case
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lotuses	amod
24	lotuses	lotus	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pool	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 boat	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 boat	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 boat	det
28	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floating	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 sandal	case
30	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boat	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 oars	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 oars	case
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 oars	compound
34	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 floating	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Maheshwara					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	Maheshwara			before sun		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before he=Theme
3	see	past	Maheshwara	a woman			suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	float	gerund	Maheshwara not said here		a pool of white lotuses		in a boat of sandal; with silver oars	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on pool=Source in boat=Trajectory

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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 20