The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 2, sentence 88
Then suddenly Shrí clapped her hands in his face, and exclaimed: Dost thou hear, or art thou deaf as well as dumb?
Who acts: Shrí · What happens: clap, exclaim, do, hear · To what, where: hands, thou
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 clapped | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 clapped | advmod |
| 3 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 clapped | nsubj |
| 4 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clapped | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 exclaimed | cc |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dost | punct |
| 14 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 Dost | obj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Dost | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 art | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 art | cc |
| 19 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 art | obj |
| 21 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 art | xcomp |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 dumb | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 deaf | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | Shrí | lady's hands | then | in Shrí's face; suddenly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Patient in face=Theme | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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