The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 102
And the cart fell, and was broken, and the child cried over its broken toy.
Who acts: cart, child · What happens: fall, break, cry · To what, where: broken toy
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cart, child), 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 | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 broken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 broken | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 broken | aux:pass |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 toy | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 toy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 toy | amod |
| 17 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the cart | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the child | child's broken toy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over toy=Location | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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