The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 65
And Shrí looked and saw him standing, sword in hand, tall, and lean in the waist like a hungry lion, with shoulders like those of a bull, and long arms, and all the royal marks of a King.
Who acts: Shrí · What happens: look, see, stand, lean, mark · To what, where: long arms, Shrí, sword, hand, waist, King
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 (Shrí), 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 | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sword | punct |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sword | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tall | punct |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sword | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lean | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lean | cc |
| 16 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 waist | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waist | det |
| 19 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lean | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 lion | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 22 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lion | amod |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lean | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shoulders | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 shoulders | case |
| 26 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lean | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 those | case |
| 28 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 shoulders | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bull | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bull | det |
| 31 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 those | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 arms | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 arms | cc |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 arms | amod |
| 35 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 marks | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 marks | cc |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 marks | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 marks | det |
| 40 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 marks | amod |
| 41 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 King | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 marks | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Shrí | long arms | all royal marks of a King obl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | Shrí not said here | Shrí | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Shrí not said here | sword | hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Destination | |||
| 4 | lean | infinitive | Shrí not said here | the waist | like a hungry lion; shoulders like those of a bull conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in waist=Location | |||
| 5 | mark | a King | nom mark «cognition 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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