The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 9
And he looked in the midst of those base mockers like a black antelope smitten by the hunters with a mortal wound, and surrounded by a troop of chattering monkeys.
Who acts: Umra, troop · What happens: look, smite, surround, chatter · To what, where: black antelope, monkeys
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, troop), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 midst | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 midst | det |
| 6 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mockers | case |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 mockers | det |
| 9 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mockers | compound |
| 10 | mockers | mocker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 midst | nmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 antelope | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 antelope | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 antelope | amod |
| 14 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mockers | nmod |
| 15 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 antelope | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hunters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hunters | det |
| 18 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smitten | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wound | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wound | det |
| 21 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wound | amod |
| 22 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smitten | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 surrounded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 surrounded | cc |
| 25 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 troop | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 troop | det |
| 28 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 chattering | mark |
| 30 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 troop | acl |
| 31 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chattering | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Umra | in the midst of that base mockers like a black antelope | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in midst=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smite | participle | a black antelope not said here | by the hunters; with a mortal wound | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | Umra not said here | a troop obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chatter | gerund | a troop not said here | monkeys | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme |
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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