The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 71
And he lay down on the ground, and suddenly abandoning the form of a hermit, became a weasel, which stuck out at Umra-Singh a long red tongue, and entered the ground by a hole, and disappeared.
Who acts: kind, weasel · What happens: lie down, abandon, become, stick out, enter, disappear · To what, where: ground, form, weasel, long red tongue, Umra, hermit
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 (kind, weasel), 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 | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 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 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 abandoning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 abandoning | cc |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 abandoning | advmod |
| 11 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abandoning | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hermit | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hermit | det |
| 16 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 form | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 weasel | det |
| 20 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stuck | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stuck | nsubj |
| 23 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 weasel | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 stuck | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Umra | case |
| 26 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stuck | obl |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Singh | punct |
| 28 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Umra | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tongue | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tongue | amod |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tongue | amod |
| 32 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stuck | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 entered | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 entered | cc |
| 35 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ground | det |
| 37 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | obj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 hole | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 hole | det |
| 40 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entered | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 disappeared | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 disappeared | cc |
| 43 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | kind | the ground | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | |||
| 2 | abandon | gerund | kind not said here | the form of a hermit | suddenly property | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme form=Source | |||
| 3 | become | past | kind not said here | a weasel | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stick out | past | a weasel | a long red tongue | Umra and Singh | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at umra=Destination | |||
| 5 | enter | past | kind not said here | the ground | by a hole | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination | |||
| 6 | disappear | past | kind not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | form | a hermit | nom form «communication 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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