The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 103
And hearing the proclamation, all the citizens and strangers in the city marvelled as they listened.
Who acts: citizens · What happens: hear, marvell, listen · To what, where: proclamation
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (citizens), 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 | _ | 2 hearing | cc |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 marvelled | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 proclamation | det |
| 4 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 citizens | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 citizens | det |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 marvelled | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strangers | cc |
| 10 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 citizens | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 citizens | nmod |
| 14 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 listened | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 listened | nsubj |
| 17 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 marvelled | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 marvelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | all citizens in the city and strangers not said here | the proclamation | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer proclamation=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | marvell | past | all citizens in the city and strangers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | citizens = citizen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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