The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 77

So as they stood there, waiting, gradually that old sage came to himself: for he felt that his meditations were being disturbed by something or other.

Who acts: old, old sage, Anushayiní · What happens: stand, wait, come, feel, disturb, meditate · To what, where: Anushayiní, meditations

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 (old, old sage, Anushayiní), 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	_	4 stood	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 waiting	punct
7	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 sage	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sage	amod
12	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 came	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 felt	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 disturbed	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 meditations	nmod:poss
22	meditations	meditation	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 disturbed	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 disturbed	aux:pass
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 disturbed	aux:pass
25	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 felt	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 something	case
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 disturbed	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 other	cc
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	old			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	old not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	that old sage		Anushayiní		gradually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
4	feel	past	Anushayiní					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	disturb	past · passive		Anushayiní's meditations			by something	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	meditate		Anushayiní					nom meditation «cognition intransitive»: 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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 77