The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 49
But the criers, when they heard what he said, could not believe their ears, and almost abandoned the body from excess of joy.
Who acts: criers, father · What happens: hear, say, not believe, abandon · To what, where: ears, body, excess · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (criers, father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 criers | det |
| 3 | criers | crier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believe | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 abandoned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 abandoned | cc |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 abandoned | advmod |
| 20 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 abandoned | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 excess | case |
| 24 | excess | excess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 abandoned | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 excess | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the criers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not believe | could | criers's ears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | abandon | past | the criers not said here | the body | excess of joy | almost property | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme body=Source from excess=Destination |
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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