The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 86
Then those two unhappy lovers looked at each other in mute despair.
Who acts: two unhappy lovers · What happens: look
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 (two unhappy lovers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 looked | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 lovers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lovers | nummod |
| 4 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lovers | amod |
| 5 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 despair | case |
| 11 | mute | mute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 despair | amod |
| 12 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | that two unhappy lovers | then | in mute despair; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
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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