The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 38

For one woman witches us, like a waterfall, with the music of her bubbling laughter, and another entrances us, like a forest-pool, with the peace of her shadowy silence.

Who acts: another, woman · What happens: witch, bubble, entrance, pacify, silence · To what, where: us, shadowy silence

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 (another, woman), 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	_	3 woman	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 woman	nummod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witches	obl
4	witches	witch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 witches	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waterfall	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 waterfall	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 waterfall	det
9	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witches	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 music	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 music	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 music	det
13	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witches	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 laughter	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 laughter	nmod:poss
16	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 laughter	amod
17	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 music	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 entrances	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 entrances	cc
20	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	21 entrances	nsubj
21	entrances	entrance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 witches	parataxis
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 entrances	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pool	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	28 pool	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pool	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pool	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 forest	punct
28	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entrances	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 peace	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 peace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 peace	det
32	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entrances	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 silence	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 silence	nmod:poss
35	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 silence	amod
36	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 peace	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 witches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	witch	present		us	for one woman; like a waterfall; with the music of woman's bubbling laughter	tree rules
2	bubble	gerund				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	entrance	present	another	us	like a forest pool; the peace of woman's shadowy silence conj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
4	pacify			woman's shadowy silence		nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient
5	silence		woman			nom silence «state transitive»: 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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 38