The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 26
And it seemed to Kamalamitra that he stood in a pool of colour formed by the essence of all the blue lotuses in the world.
Who acts: it, Maheshwara · What happens: seem, stand, form · To what, where: Kamalamitra, pool, colour
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 (it, 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 | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Kamalamitra | case |
| 5 | Kamalamitra | Kamalamitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 stood | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pool | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pool | det |
| 11 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colour | case |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pool | nmod |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 colour | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 essence | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 essence | det |
| 17 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lotuses | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 lotuses | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lotuses | det |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lotuses | amod |
| 22 | lotuses | lotus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 essence | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lotuses | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | Kamalamitra | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Maheshwara | a pool of colour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location | ||||
| 3 | form | participle | colour not said here | by the essence of all blue lotuses in the world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by essence=Location |
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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