The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 67
For her heart was stirred within her at the sight of him, and dim suggestions of that former birth, which she had forgotten, struggled in her soul, and strove to rise up out of its depths.
Who acts: former birth · What happens: stir, forget, struggle, strive, rise up, sight · To what, where: sight, dim suggestions, soul, depths, 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 (former birth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stirred | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | aux:pass |
| 5 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stirred | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stirred | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suggestions | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 suggestions | cc |
| 15 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 suggestions | amod |
| 16 | suggestions | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stirred | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 birth | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 birth | det |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 birth | amod |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suggestions | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgotten | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgotten | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 forgotten | aux |
| 25 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 suggestions | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 struggled | punct |
| 27 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 forgotten | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 soul | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 soul | nmod:poss |
| 30 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 struggled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strove | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 strove | cc |
| 33 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 rise | mark |
| 35 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 strove | xcomp |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 rise | compound:prt |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 depths | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 depths | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 depths | nmod:poss |
| 40 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rise | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past · passive | the sight of King | for lion's heart; within lion; dim suggestions of that former birth conj | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: at sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | forget | past · perfect · passive | dim suggestions of that former birth | lion nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | struggle | participle | lion's soul | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strive | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | rise up | to-infinitive | birth's depths | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out depth=Location | |||||
| 6 | sight | King | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | suggest | that former birth | nom suggestion «cognition 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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