The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 120
And as he watched her, there came a fly, which buzzed about her, and settled on her lips.
Who acts: king, fly · What happens: watch, come, buzz, settle · To what, where: daughter, fly
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, fly), 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 | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 watched | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 came | expl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fly | det |
| 10 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buzzed | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 buzzed | nsubj |
| 13 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | acl:relcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 buzzed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 settled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 settled | cc |
| 18 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 settled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | king | daughter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a fly | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fly=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buzz | past | a fly | about daughter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location | ||||
| 4 | settle | past | on daughter's lips | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on lip=Topic |
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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