The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 54

For there came from her hair a strange wind, like a cloud of the sweet of a thousand scents, that lured his soul to listen and dream in the lulling murmur of her mouth.

Who acts: that · What happens: come, lure, listen, dream, lull, cloud · To what, where: strange wind, hair, soul, lulling murmur, sweet, mouth

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 (that), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wind	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wind	amod
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cloud	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 cloud	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloud	det
13	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sweet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sweet	det
16	sweet	sweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cloud	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 scents	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thousand	det
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 scents	nummod
20	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sweet	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lured	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lured	nsubj
23	lured	lure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cloud	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 soul	nmod:poss
25	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lured	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 listen	mark
27	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lured	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dream	cc
29	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 listen	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 murmur	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 murmur	det
32	lulling	lull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 murmur	amod
33	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dream	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mouth	nmod:poss
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 murmur	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		a strange wind	cloud's hair; there	a cloud of the sweet of thousand scents parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hair=Initial_Location
2	lure	past	that	light's soul			tree rules
3	listen	to-infinitive	that not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	dream	infinitive	that not said here		the lulling murmur of cloud's mouth		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	lull	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	cloud			the sweet of thousand scents			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
7	murmur			cloud's mouth			nom murmur «event transitive»: of=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.

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🌲 The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 54

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 54