The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 44
And suddenly she turned again, and put up to her head the graceful creepers of her round arms, and undid the knot of her hair, and shook it.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: turn, put up, undo, shake · To what, where: graceful creepers, knot
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 (cloud), 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 | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 turned | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 creepers | det |
| 14 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creepers | amod |
| 15 | creepers | creeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 arms | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 arms | amod |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 creepers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 undid | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 undid | cc |
| 22 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knot | det |
| 24 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 undid | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hair | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hair | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knot | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shook | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shook | cc |
| 30 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 undid | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shook | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | cloud | again | suddenly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | put up | participle | cloud not said here | the graceful creepers of cloud's round arms | to cloud's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent creeper=Goal | |||
| 3 | undo | past | cloud not said here | the knot of cloud's hair | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | cloud not said here | knot | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/6/44/