The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 69

And he looked straight before him, with great eyes that mirrored everything, but saw nothing, clear and unfathomable and still, like mountain tarns in which all the fish are asleep.

Who acts: hand, great eyes, fish · What happens: look, mirror, see, be · To what, where: everything, nothing, mountain tarns

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 (hand, great eyes, fish), 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 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eyes	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mirrored	nsubj
12	mirrored	mirror	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eyes	acl:relcl
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 mirrored	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clear	punct
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nothing	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unfathomable	cc
21	unfathomable	unfathomable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clear	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 still	cc
23	still	still	ADV	_	19 clear	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tarns	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 tarns	case
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tarns	compound
27	tarns	tarn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 asleep	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 fish	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fish	det
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 asleep	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 asleep	cop
34	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tarns	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	hand			before hair	with great eyes; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before he=Theme
2	mirror	past	great eyes	everything				tree rules
3	see	past		nothing			mountain tarns conj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	is	present	all fish		mountain tarns		asleep property	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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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 69