The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 76

And as she stood there, trembling in the swing of uncertainty, Kamalamitra watched her with ecstasy, and laughed to himself; and said: Certainly that old _muni_ is no longer alive, for otherwise she would have reached his soul through the door of his eyes, were it down in the lower world.

Who acts: thought, Kamalamitra, old, uncertainty · What happens: stand, tremble, watch down, laugh, say, be · To what, where: swing, thought, lower world, Anushayiní, soul, door · 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, Kamalamitra, old, uncertainty), 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	_	15 watched	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trembling	punct
7	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 swing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swing	det
10	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trembling	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 uncertainty	case
12	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swing	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
14	Kamalamitra	Kamalamitra	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 watched	nsubj
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 ecstasy	case
18	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 laughed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 old	punct
28	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	30 old	advmod
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 old	advmod
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 alive	nsubj
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 old	punct
32	muni	municipality	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 _	compound
33	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 old	conj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 alive	cop
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 longer	advmod
36	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 alive	advmod
37	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 reached	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 reached	mark
40	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	44 reached	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 reached	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 reached	aux
43	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 reached	aux
44	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 said	ccomp
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 soul	nmod:poss
46	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	obj
47	through	through	ADP	_	49 door	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 eyes	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 eyes	nmod:poss
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 door	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 it	punct
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 it	cop
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	obl
56	down	down	ADP	_	15 watched	compound:prt
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 world	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 world	det
59	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	60 world	amod
60	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	thought			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tremble	gerund	thought not said here			the swing of uncertainty		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swing=Location
3	watch down	past	Kamalamitra	thought		the lower world	with ecstasy	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	laugh	past	Kamalamitra not said here		Anushayiní			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	Kamalamitra not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	present	old and muni _				alive, long property	tree rules
7	reach	would · perfect	thought	Anushayiní's soul		the door of Anushayiní's eyes	otherwise property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent soul=Theme
8	is a	past		door				tree rules
9	swing		uncertainty					nom swing «state intransitive»: of=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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 76