The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 75
And she looked into those eyes, and saw there nothing save two images of herself, like two incarnations of timidity, that seemed to say to her as it were: Beware!
Who acts: thought, nothing, two incarnations, image · What happens: look, see, save, seem, say, beware · To what, where: two images, thought · 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 (thought, nothing, two incarnations, image), 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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 saw | advmod |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 save | nsubj |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 images | nummod |
| 14 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 images | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 incarnations | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 incarnations | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 incarnations | nummod |
| 20 | incarnations | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 timidity | case |
| 22 | timidity | timidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 incarnations | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 say | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 Beware | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 Beware | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 Beware | aux |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 Beware | punct |
| 34 | Beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 say | advcl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | thought | into that eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | thought not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | nothing | two images of thought | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | two incarnations of timidity | that nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | two incarnations of timidity not said here | thought | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | beware | past | image | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | image | thought | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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