The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 56
And one night, in the rainy season, an old female ascetic entered the temple, to shelter herself from the storm.
Who acts: rainy season · What happens: enter, shelter · To what, where: temple, ascetic, storm
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 (rainy season), 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 | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 season | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 season | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 season | det |
| 7 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 season | amod |
| 8 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ascetic | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ascetic | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ascetic | amod |
| 12 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ascetic | amod |
| 13 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 temple | det |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shelter | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 shelter | mark |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 entered | advcl |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 shelter | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 storm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 storm | det |
| 23 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shelter | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the rainy season | the temple | night | a old female ascetic nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme temple=Destination | ||
| 2 | shelter | to-infinitive | the rainy season not said here | ascetic | the storm | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from storm=Beneficiary |
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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