The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 33
And she leaned against a tree and stood waiting, with one hand on the trunk of the tree and the other on her hip, and a heaving breast: and she looked like a feminine incarnation of the essence of the agitation of the ocean, stirred by the sight of the moon.
Who acts: cow · What happens: learn, stand, wait, look, stir, sight · To what, where: heaving breast, moon
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), 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 leaned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaned | conj |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stood | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hand | nummod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waiting | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 trunk | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trunk | det |
| 16 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trunk | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 other | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 hip | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hip | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 other | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 breast | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 breast | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 breast | det |
| 29 | heaving | heaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 breast | compound |
| 30 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looked | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaned | parataxis |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 incarnation | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 incarnation | det |
| 37 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 incarnation | amod |
| 38 | incarnation | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looked | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 essence | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 essence | det |
| 41 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 incarnation | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 agitation | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 agitation | det |
| 44 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 essence | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 ocean | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 ocean | det |
| 47 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 agitation | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 stirred | punct |
| 49 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 looked | conj |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 sight | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sight | det |
| 52 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stirred | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 moon | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 moon | det |
| 55 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sight | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | cow | a heaving breast | against a tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | past | cow not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | cow not said here | with one hand on the trunk of the tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | cow | like a feminine incarnation of the essence of the agitation of the ocean | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stir | participle | cow not said here | by the sight of the moon | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sight=Location | ||||
| 6 | sight | the moon | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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