The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 26
And instantly he picked up his sword, and threw it into the air.
Who acts: man · What happens: pick up, throw · To what, where: sword, air
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 (man), 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 picked | cc |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | man | man's sword | instantly property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Topic | |||
| 2 | throw | past | man not said here | sword | into the air result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into air=Result |
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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