The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 22
And the round curve of her hip stood up like a sand bank, and was mirrored again in the silent water below.
Who acts: round curve · What happens: stand up, mirror · To what, where: silent water
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 (round curve), 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 | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 curve | det |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 curve | amod |
| 4 | curve | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hip | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hip | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curve | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stood | compound:prt |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bank | compound |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mirrored | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mirrored | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mirrored | aux:pass |
| 17 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stood | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 mirrored | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 21 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mirrored | obl |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 22 water | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the round curve of curve's hip | like a sand bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mirror | past · passive | the round curve of curve's hip not said here | the silent water | again | tree rules |
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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