The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 28
For yesterday I gazed at his glory, and now I am gazing at thy two eyes, and it is the same.
Who acts: I, glory, Maheshwara · What happens: gaze, be, glory
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 (I, glory, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 yesterday | case |
| 2 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 glory | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 glory | nmod:poss |
| 7 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazing | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gazing | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gazing | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gazing | aux |
| 13 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gazed | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eyes | nummod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gazing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 same | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 same | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 same | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 same | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gazed | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | I | yesterday | at Maheshwara's glory | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glory=Theme | |||
| 2 | gaze | present · progressive | I | now | at thy two eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | glory | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glory | Maheshwara | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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