The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 80
And he cast at that wayward beauty a glance, sorrowful as that of a deer, yet terrible as a thunderbolt: and immediately courage fled from her soul, and strength from her knees, and she sank to the ground with drooping head, like a lotus broken by the wind.
Who acts: meditation, courage · What happens: cast, flee, sink, droop, break · To what, where: wayward beauty, soul, head, lotus
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 (meditation, courage), 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 cast | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 beauty | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 beauty | det |
| 6 | wayward | wayward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beauty | amod |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 glance | det |
| 9 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beauty | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorrowful | punct |
| 11 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 glance | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sorrowful | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 deer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deer | det |
| 16 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 terrible | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 terrible | cc |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cast | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 thunderbolt | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thunderbolt | det |
| 22 | thunderbolt | thunderbolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 terrible | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 fled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fled | cc |
| 25 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 fled | advmod |
| 26 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | nsubj |
| 27 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 soul | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 soul | nmod:poss |
| 30 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strength | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 strength | cc |
| 33 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fled | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 knees | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 knees | nmod:poss |
| 36 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 strength | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sank | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sank | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sank | nsubj |
| 40 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fled | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sank | obl |
| 44 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 45 drooping | mark |
| 45 | drooping | droop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 sank | advcl |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 drooping | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 lotus | punct |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 lotus | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 lotus | det |
| 50 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 drooping | obl |
| 51 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 lotus | acl |
| 52 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 wind | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 wind | det |
| 54 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 broken | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | meditation | that wayward beauty and a glance | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at beauty=Destination | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | courage | courage's soul | strength from courage's knees conj; immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soul=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sink | past | courage | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | droop | gerund | courage not said here | head | like a lotus | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 5 | break | participle | a lotus not said here | by the wind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location |
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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