The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 72
For the sight of her half-remembered eyes clutched his heart, and stopped its beating like an iron band.
Who acts: remembered eyes, sight · What happens: remember, clutch, stop, beat · To what, where: heart, beating
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 (remembered eyes, sight), 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 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clutched | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 remembered | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clutched | nsubj |
| 10 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clutched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 clutched | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beating | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 band | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 band | det |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 band | compound |
| 21 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | participle | half compound | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clutch | past | lion's remembered eyes | Umra's heart | for the sight | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 3 | stop | past | lion's remembered eyes not said here | sight's beating | like a iron band | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality beating=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | beat | sight | nom beating «act transitive»: poss=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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