The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 117

And, even while he spoke with Maheshwara, she was bitten by a snake and died, and he did not know it, for they feared to tell him.

Who acts: king, snake, Maheshwara · What happens: speak, bite, die, not know, fear, tell · To what, where: daughter, snake, king · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, snake, Maheshwara), 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 spoke	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct
3	even	even	ADV	_	6 spoke	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 spoke	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Maheshwara	case
8	Maheshwara	Maheshwara	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bitten	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bitten	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bitten	aux:pass
12	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spoke	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 snake	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 snake	det
15	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bitten	obl:agent
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 died	cc
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bitten	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 died	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feared	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 feared	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 feared	nsubj
28	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 feared	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	king			with Maheshwara	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maheshwara=Co-Agent
2	bite	past · passive	a snake	daughter			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	die	past	a snake not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not know	past · do-support	king	snake			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	fear	past	Maheshwara				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Maheshwara not said here		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 117