The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 3, sentence 91
And she drove away the crow, and lived on in the forest, serving her father, and at the last became old, and died in the forest, and no man ever saw her face.
Who acts: daughter, man · What happens: drive away, live on, serve, become, die, see · To what, where: crow, forest, father, last, face
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 (daughter, 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 | _ | 3 drove | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drove | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lived | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 serving | punct |
| 15 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lived | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serving | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 last | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | obl |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | parataxis |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 died | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 died | cc |
| 27 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 became | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forest | det |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 died | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saw | cc |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 saw | advmod |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 died | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | past | daughter | the crow | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme | |||
| 2 | live on | past | daughter not said here | the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | serve | gerund | daughter not said here | daughter's father | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the last | old property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die | past | in the forest | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | see | past | no man | daughter's face | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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