The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, An Evil Eye., sentence 96
So after considering awhile, that Master Yogi took a lotus, and placing it on the earth in a distant sea, it became an island.
Who acts: Master, mind · What happens: consider, take, place, become · To what, where: lotus, mind, earth, island
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 (Master, mind), 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 | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 considering | mark |
| 3 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 4 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 3 considering | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 took | mark |
| 7 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 8 | Yogi | Yogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Master | flat |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lotus | det |
| 11 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placing | cc |
| 14 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 placing | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placing | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 21 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 became | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | gerund | Master not said here | awhile property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Master | a lotus | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lotus=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | gerund | Master not said here | mind | the earth | in a distant sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on earth=Destination | ||
| 4 | become | past | mind | a island | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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