The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 58

And she seized him by the arm and shook him violently, and exclaimed: Hast thou a stone within thy breast, instead of a heart, that my beauty cannot touch thee?

Who acts: elephant, beauty · What happens: seize, shake, exclaim, have, not touch · To what, where: Ulupí, thou, thee

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 (elephant, beauty), 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 seized	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 exclaimed	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arm	det
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shook	cc
9	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shook	obj
11	violently	violently	ADV	_	9 shook	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 exclaimed	cc
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Hast	punct
16	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 exclaimed	conj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 Hast	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hast	obj
20	within	within	ADP	_	22 breast	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 breast	nmod:poss
22	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hast	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heart	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 heart	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 heart	det
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Hast	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 touch	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 touch	mark
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 beauty	nmod:poss
31	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 touch	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 touch	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 touch	advmod
34	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Hast	parataxis
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 touch	obj
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	elephant	Ulupí	by the arm	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	shake	past	elephant not said here	Ulupí	violently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	exclaim speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	have	present		thou	within thy breast; a stone obj; a heart parataxis	tree rules
5	not touch	can	my beauty	thee		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Co-Theme

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 58