The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 64
And as she wept, the tears ran down from her eyes like a river, and fell into the lake.
Who acts: elephant, tears · What happens: weep, run down, fall · To what, where: eyes, lake
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, tears), 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 | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 wept | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wept | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tears | det |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | elephant | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run down | past | the tears | elephant's eyes like a river | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the tears not said here | into the lake result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result |
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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