The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 73
So Anushayiní went forward, obeying his command, and stepped over the leaves with feet lighter than themselves, till she stood in front of the sage.
Who acts: Anushayiní, thought · What happens: go, obey, step, stand, command · To what, where: command, leaves, front · 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 (Anushayiní, thought), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Anushayiní | Anushayiní | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 obeying | punct |
| 6 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 command | nmod:poss |
| 8 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obeying | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stepped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stepped | cc |
| 11 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 leaves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stepped | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stepped | obl |
| 17 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 stepped | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 themselves | case |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 lighter | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 stood | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stepped | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sage | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sage | det |
| 28 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 front | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Anushayiní | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey | gerund | Anushayiní not said here | Anushayiní's command | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step | past | the leaves | with feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | thought | front of the sage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 5 | command | Anushayiní | nom command «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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