The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 83
And she saw before her only a ragged Rajpoot, stumbling in his tale, and abashed before her, and unable to support his knavery even by a clever lie.
Who acts: lady, ragged Rajpoot, Umra · What happens: see, stumble, abash, support, tell · To what, where: ragged Rajpoot, tale, knavery · 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 (lady, ragged Rajpoot, Umra), 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 saw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 Rajpoot | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Rajpoot | det |
| 8 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Rajpoot | amod |
| 9 | Rajpoot | rajpoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stumbling | punct |
| 11 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tale | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stumbling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 abashed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 abashed | cc |
| 17 | abashed | abash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 abashed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 unable | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 unable | cc |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 support | mark |
| 24 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 knavery | nmod:poss |
| 26 | knavery | knavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 support | obj |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 lie | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 lie | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lie | det |
| 30 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lie | amod |
| 31 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 support | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | lady | a ragged Rajpoot | before voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | stumble | gerund | lady not said here | Umra's tale | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | abash | participle | lady not said here | before lady | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | support | to-infinitive | a ragged Rajpoot not said here | Umra's knavery | by a clever lie | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knavery=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | tell | Umra | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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