The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 67
And he looked, and lo! suddenly that delusive daughter of a Daitya became a mist, and floated away over the water like vapour.
Who acts: Ulupí, delusive daughter · What happens: look, become, float away · To what, where: mist, water
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 (Ulupí, delusive daughter), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 daughter | cc |
| 6 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 11 daughter | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lo | punct |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 daughter | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 daughter | det |
| 10 | delusive | delusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Daitya | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Daitya | det |
| 14 | Daitya | Daitya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mist | det |
| 17 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 floated | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 floated | cc |
| 20 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 floated | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floated | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 vapour | case |
| 26 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floated | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ulupí | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | become | past | that delusive daughter of a Daitya | a mist | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | float away | participle | Ulupí not said here | the water | like vapour; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory |
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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