The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 35
And now it is well, that I am fenced by the blue eyes of Shrí like a suit of armour, otherwise the glances of this forest maiden would like an axe long ago have cleft my heart in two.
Who acts: hand, blue eyes, glances · What happens: be, fence, like, have · To what, where: I, axe, cleft, two
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 (hand, blue eyes, glances), 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 | _ | 10 fenced | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fenced | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 well | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 now | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fenced | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fenced | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fenced | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fenced | aux:pass |
| 10 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 have | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyes | det |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fenced | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shrí | case |
| 16 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | nmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 suit | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 suit | det |
| 19 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 armour | case |
| 21 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suit | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 glances | punct |
| 23 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 25 glances | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 glances | det |
| 25 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 maiden | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 maiden | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 maiden | compound |
| 29 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 like | obl |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | aux |
| 31 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 glances | acl:relcl |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 axe | det |
| 33 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 like | obj |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 ago | advmod |
| 35 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 31 like | advmod |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 two | case |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 have | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hand | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fence | present · passive | the blue eyes of Shrí | I | now | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | |||
| 3 | like | would | the glances not said here | a axe | of this forest maiden; ago property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot axe=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | present | the glances | cleft | two | like a suit of armour; my heart obj | 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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