The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 24
And Kamalamitra stood still, holding his breath, and gazing at her, fearing to move, for he thought it was a dream.
Who acts: Kamalamitra, Maheshwara, breath · What happens: stand, hold, gaze, fear, move, think · To what, where: breath, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kamalamitra, Maheshwara, breath), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | Kamalamitra | Kamalamitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 holding | punct |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 breath | nmod:poss |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gazing | cc |
| 11 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gazing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fearing | punct |
| 15 | fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 gazing | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 move | mark |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fearing | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dream | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dream | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dream | det |
| 25 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Kamalamitra | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Kamalamitra not said here | Maheshwara's breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | Kamalamitra not said here | at Kamalamitra | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | gerund | Kamalamitra not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | move | to-infinitive | Kamalamitra not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Maheshwara | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | breath | a dream | 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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