The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 13
So he lay long, gazing at the image of Shrí as it floated before him, and stung his soul like the teeth of a serpent, and yet soothed it like sandal, while the moon rose in the sky.
Who acts: Umra, image, moon · What happens: lie, gaze, float, sting, soothe, rise · To what, where: soul, sky, Shrí
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 (Umra, image, moon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazing | punct |
| 6 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 image | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 image | det |
| 9 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Shrí | case |
| 11 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 image | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 floated | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 floated | nsubj |
| 14 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gazing | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 floated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stung | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stung | cc |
| 19 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 soul | nmod:poss |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stung | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 teeth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 teeth | det |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stung | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 serpent | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 serpent | det |
| 27 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teeth | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 soothed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 soothed | cc |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 soothed | advmod |
| 31 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 soothed | obj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 sandal | case |
| 34 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 soothed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 rose | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 rose | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 moon | det |
| 38 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rose | nsubj |
| 39 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 soothed | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sky | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sky | det |
| 42 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rose | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Umra | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | Umra not said here | at the image of Shrí | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at image=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | past | image | before Umra | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sting | past | Umra not said here | Umra's soul | like the teeth of a serpent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | soothe | past | Umra not said here | soul | yet | like sandal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||
| 6 | rise | past | the moon | the sky | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location | ||||
| 7 | image | Shrí | 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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