The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 70
And Kamalamitra and Anushayiní looked at him awhile in silence, and then at each other, and trembled, for they knew that they were staking their souls.
Who acts: Kamalamitra, fish · What happens: look, tremble, know, stake · To what, where: silence, souls
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 (Kamalamitra, 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 | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | Kamalamitra | Kamalamitra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Anushayiní | cc |
| 4 | Anushayiní | Anushayiní | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kamalamitra | conj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 silence | case |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 each | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 each | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 each | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 looked | conj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trembled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trembled | cc |
| 19 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 knew | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trembled | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 staking | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 staking | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 staking | aux |
| 27 | staking | stake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 knew | advcl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 souls | nmod:poss |
| 29 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 staking | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Kamalamitra and Anushayiní | silence | at hand; awhile property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | tremble | past | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stake | past · progressive | fish | fish's souls | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
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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