The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 37
And she beckoned to him as he drew near with a bangled hand, and moving lips, and eyes that shone in the moonlight like the eyes of a snake.
Who acts: cow, Shrí, eyes · What happens: beckon, draw, move, shine · To what, where: eyes, Shrí, lips, moonlight
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, Shrí, eyes), 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 beckoned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beckoned | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 drew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beckoned | advcl |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 drew | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 12 | bangled | bangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moving | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 moving | cc |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 beckoned | advcl |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 moving | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyes | cc |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beckoned | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 shone | nsubj |
| 22 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 moonlight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moonlight | det |
| 25 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shone | obl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eyes | det |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 moonlight | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 snake | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 snake | det |
| 31 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | cow | eyes | Shrí | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Shrí | with a bangled hand; near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | cow not said here | lips | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | eyes | the moonlight like the eyes of a snake | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |
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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