The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 101
And it seemed to Umra-Singh, in the loneliness of that vast solitude, that all those hideous Eyes sought him out, and fastened on him, and rested on him alone, saying to him as it were: Thou canst not escape.
Who acts: it, hideous Eyes, Thou · What happens: seem, seek out, fasten, rest, say, not be · To what, where: Umra, surface · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, hideous Eyes, Thou), 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 seemed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Umra | case |
| 5 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Singh | punct |
| 7 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Umra | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loneliness | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 loneliness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 loneliness | det |
| 11 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 solitude | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 solitude | det |
| 14 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 solitude | amod |
| 15 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loneliness | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sought | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sought | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Eyes | det:predet |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 Eyes | det |
| 20 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Eyes | amod |
| 21 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sought | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sought | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fastened | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fastened | cc |
| 27 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fastened | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rested | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rested | cc |
| 32 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 fastened | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rested | obl |
| 35 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 32 rested | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saying | punct |
| 37 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 rested | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 saying | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 saying | obl |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 escape | cop |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 escape | punct |
| 44 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 47 escape | nsubj |
| 45 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 47 escape | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 escape | advmod |
| 47 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 saying | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | Umra and Singh | in the loneliness of that vast solitude | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in loneliness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | seek out | past | all hideous Eyes | surface | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | participle | on surface | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on he=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | rest | participle | on surface; alone property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | surface | as quarter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not is | can · past | Thou | escape property | tree rules |
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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