The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 58
But as she spoke, her eyes rested on Kamalamitra, and bewildered him, and destroyed the persuasion of her words.
Who acts: Orion, eyes · What happens: speak, rest, bewilder, destroy, persuade, word · To what, where: Kamalamitra, Daksha, persuasion, words · 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 (Orion, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 rested | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rested | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rested | nsubj |
| 8 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Kamalamitra | case |
| 10 | Kamalamitra | Kamalamitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rested | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bewildered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bewildered | cc |
| 13 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rested | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bewildered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destroyed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 destroyed | cc |
| 17 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bewildered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 persuasion | det |
| 19 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destroyed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 words | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 words | nmod:poss |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 persuasion | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Orion | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rest | past | Orion's eyes | Kamalamitra | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on kamalamitra=Location | ||||
| 3 | bewilder | past | Orion's eyes not said here | Daksha | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | destroy | past | Orion's eyes not said here | the persuasion of Orion's words | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persuasion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | persuade | Orion's words | nom persuasion «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | word | Orion | nom word «communication 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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