The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 46
Then with her hand she put it away from her face, and shot through its meshes a subtle smile, and said: At least thou hast never seen the equal of my hair?
Who acts: cloud, thou · What happens: put away, shoot, say, not see · To what, where: knot, face, meshes, equal, least · Speech: someone speaks here
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, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 put | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shot | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shot | cc |
| 14 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | advcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 meshes | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 meshes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shot | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 smile | det |
| 19 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 smile | amod |
| 20 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meshes | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 25 | At | at | ADP | _ | 26 least | case |
| 26 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 seen | obl |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 seen | advmod |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 said | ccomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 equal | det |
| 32 | equal | equal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hair | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hair | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 equal | nmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put away | past | cloud | knot | cloud's face | then | with cloud's hand; away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |
| 2 | shoot | past | cloud not said here | knot's meshes a subtle smile | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through mesh=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not see | present · perfect | thou | the equal of my hair | least | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer equal=Stimulus |
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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