The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 51
And suddenly she stooped, and gathered up her hair in her arm, and came up to Umra-Singh, and flung it round him like a noose, and whispered in his ear, with lips that caressed it as they moved: O foolish bee[7], I am but a lotus of the night: yet why despise me, in comparison with the absent lotus of the day?
Who acts: cloud, lips, I · What happens: stoop, gather up, come up, fling, whisper, caress · To what, where: hair, arm, Umra, ear, foolish bee, lotus
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, lips, I), 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 stooped | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 stooped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stooped | nsubj |
| 4 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gathered | cc |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gathered | compound:prt |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 arm | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arm | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Umra | case |
| 19 | Umra | Umra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Singh | punct |
| 21 | Singh | Singh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Umra | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flung | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flung | cc |
| 24 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flung | obj |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flung | obl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 noose | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 noose | det |
| 30 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flung | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whispered | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 whispered | cc |
| 33 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stooped | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 ear | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ear | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whispered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lips | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 lips | case |
| 39 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 caressed | nsubj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 caressed | nsubj |
| 41 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 whispered | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 caressed | obj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 moved | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 moved | nsubj |
| 45 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 caressed | advcl |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 bee | punct |
| 47 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 49 bee | case |
| 48 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 bee | amod |
| 49 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 moved | obj |
| 50 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 51 7 | punct |
| 51 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 bee | appos |
| 52 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 51 7 | punct |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 lotus | punct |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 lotus | nsubj |
| 55 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 lotus | cop |
| 56 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 58 lotus | cc |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 lotus | det |
| 58 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stooped | parataxis |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 night | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 night | det |
| 61 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 lotus | nmod |
| 62 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 65 despise | punct |
| 63 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 65 despise | cc |
| 64 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 65 despise | advmod |
| 65 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stooped | conj |
| 66 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 65 despise | obj |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 comparison | punct |
| 68 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 comparison | case |
| 69 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 despise | obl |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 73 lotus | case |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 lotus | det |
| 72 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 lotus | amod |
| 73 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 comparison | nmod |
| 74 | of | of | ADP | _ | 76 day | case |
| 75 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 76 day | det |
| 76 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 lotus | nmod |
| 77 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | cloud | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gather up | past | cloud not said here | cloud's hair | cloud's arm | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||
| 3 | come up | past | cloud not said here | Umra and Singh | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to umra=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fling | past | cloud not said here | hair | round Singh; like a noose | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | whisper speech: assert | past | Singh's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | |||||
| 6 | caress | past | lips | hair | that nsubj | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | move | past | lips = lip | foolish bee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme bee=Result | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | I | a lotus | night | tree rules | |||
| 9 | despise | infinitive | cloud not said here | me | comparison with the absent lotus of the day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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