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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 34

And as he stood at the door of the house, pondering which way he should go, there fell on his ear, for the hundredth time, the sound of the beating of drums.

Who acts: Durgá · What happens: stand, ponder, go, fall, beat · To what, where: door, way, ear, drums

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Durgá), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvcldetobjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctexplcasenmod:possoblpunctcasedetamodoblpunctdetconjcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctrootAndCCONJasSCONJhePRONstoodVERBatADPtheDETdoorNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCTponderingVERBwhichDETwayNOUNhePRONshouldAUXgoVERB,PUNCTtherePRONfellVERBonADPhisPRONearNOUN,PUNCTforADPtheDEThundredthADJtimeNOUN,PUNCTtheDETsoundNOUNofADPtheDETbeatingNOUNofADPdrumsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_20 fellcc
2asasSCONJ_4 stoodmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 stoodnsubj
4stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 felladvcl
5atatADP_7 doorcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 doordet
7doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing4 stoodobl
8ofofADP_10 housecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 housedet
10househouseNOUNNumber=Sing7 doornmod
11,,PUNCT_12 ponderingpunct
12ponderingponderVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 stoodadvcl
13whichwhichDETPronType=Int14 waydet
14waywayNOUNNumber=Sing12 ponderingobj
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 gonsubj
16shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 goaux
17gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf14 wayacl:relcl
18,,PUNCT_4 stoodpunct
19theretherePRONPronType=Dem20 fellexpl
20fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
21ononADP_23 earcase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 earnmod:poss
23earearNOUNNumber=Sing20 fellobl
24,,PUNCT_28 timepunct
25forforADP_28 timecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 timedet
27hundredthhundredthADJDegree=Pos28 timeamod
28timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing20 fellobl
29,,PUNCT_31 soundpunct
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 sounddet
31soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing28 timeconj
32ofofADP_34 beatingcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 beatingdet
34beatingbeatingNOUNNumber=Sing31 soundnmod
35ofofADP_36 drumscase
36drumsdrumNOUNNumber=Plur34 beatingnmod
37..PUNCT_20 fellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastDurgáthe door of the housevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2pondergerundDurgá not said herewhich waytree rules
3goshouldDurgáwhich way not said herevn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4fallpastDurgá's ear; theretimevn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ear=Location
5beatdrumsnom beating «act transitive»: of=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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