The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 90
[10] _wyatikara_, a word expressive of the _varying_ lustre or _wavering_ coruscation of jewels.
Who acts: _, jewels · What happens: vary, waver, coruscate · To what, where: lustre, coruscation, 10
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 (_, jewels), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 wyatikara | punct |
| 5 | wyatikara | wyatikara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 10 | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 wyatikara | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expressive | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 expressive | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expressive | compound |
| 10 | expressive | expressive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 10 | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 _ | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 _ | det |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 expressive | nmod |
| 14 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 _ | acl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 lustre | punct |
| 16 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 varying | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 wavering | cc |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 wavering | punct |
| 19 | wavering | waver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lustre | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 coruscation | punct |
| 21 | coruscation | coruscation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wavering | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jewels | case |
| 23 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 coruscation | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | gerund | the _ not said here | lustre | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer lustre=Patient | ||||
| 2 | waver | gerund | the _ not said here | coruscation of jewels | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coruscation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | coruscate | jewels | nom coruscation «event intransitive»: of=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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