The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 105
And like a picture he saw before him, the image of himself, a child.
Who acts: thing · What happens: see, image · To what, where: image, thing
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 (thing), 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 | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 picture | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 image | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 image | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 child | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 image | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | thing | the image of thing and a child | before Umra | like a picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | image | thing | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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