The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 29
And she chanted as she danced with a voice that sounded like a spell, and fanned the ear like a breeze from the Malaya mountain[2].
Who acts: cow, voice · What happens: chant, dance, sound, fan · To what, where: ear, Malaya mountain
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 (cow, voice), 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 chanted | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanted | nsubj |
| 3 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 danced | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 danced | nsubj |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanted | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sounded | nsubj |
| 11 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 spell | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spell | det |
| 14 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fanned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fanned | cc |
| 17 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanted | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ear | det |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fanned | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 breeze | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 breeze | det |
| 22 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fanned | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 mountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mountain | det |
| 25 | Malaya | Malaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mountain | compound |
| 26 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fanned | obl |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 2 | punct |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 mountain | flat |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 fanned | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | cow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | cow | with a voice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | a voice | like a spell | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fan | past | cow not said here | the ear | the Malaya mountain | like a breeze | 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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