The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 8
And the people crowded round him, jeering and scouting and pointing at him, and giving him blows and kicks.
Who acts: people, giving · What happens: crowd, jeer, scout, point, give, blow · To what, where: Umra
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 (people, giving), 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 crowded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowded | nsubj |
| 4 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crowded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jeering | punct |
| 8 | jeering | jeer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crowded | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scouting | cc |
| 10 | scouting | scout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 jeering | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pointing | cc |
| 12 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 jeering | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pointing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blows | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blows | cc |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 blows | csubj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | iobj |
| 19 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kicks | cc |
| 21 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 blows | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | the people | round Umra | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | jeer | gerund | the people not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scout | gerund | the people not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | point | gerund | the people not said here | at Umra | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | gerund | Umra | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | blow | present | giving | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | kick | present | giving not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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