The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 23
And her lips moved, for she was counting the petals as they fell.
Who acts: lips, curve · What happens: move, count, fall · To what, where: petals
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 (lips, 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 | _ | 4 moved | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 counting | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 counting | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 counting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 counting | aux |
| 9 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moved | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 petals | det |
| 11 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counting | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 fell | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 counting | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | curve's lips | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | count | past · progressive | curve | the petals | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | lips = lip | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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