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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 4, sentence 96

And as he looked down, suddenly he saw before him no water and no tree, and his head grew dizzy, and his vision swam, and he could scarcely believe his eyes.

Who acts: Sun, head, vision · What happens: look down, see, grow, swim, believe · To what, where: water, eyes

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 (Sun, head, vision), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclcompound:prtpunctadvmodnsubjcaseobldetobjccdetconjpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxisxcomppunctccnmod:possnsubjconjpunctccnsubjauxadvmodconjnmod:possobjpunctrootAndCCONJasSCONJhePRONlookedVERBdownADP,PUNCTsuddenlyADVhePRONsawVERBbeforeADPhimPRONnoDETwaterNOUNandCCONJnoDETtreeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONheadNOUNgrewVERBdizzyADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONvisionNOUNswamVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcouldAUXscarcelyADVbelieveVERBhisPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_9 sawcc
2asasSCONJ_4 lookedmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 lookednsubj
4lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sawadvcl
5downdownADP_4 lookedcompound:prt
6,,PUNCT_4 lookedpunct
7suddenlysuddenlyADV_9 sawadvmod
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 sawnsubj
9sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10beforebeforeADP_11 himcase
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 sawobl
12nonoDETPronType=Neg13 waterdet
13waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing9 sawobj
14andandCCONJ_16 treecc
15nonoDETPronType=Neg16 treedet
16treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing13 waterconj
17,,PUNCT_21 grewpunct
18andandCCONJ_21 grewcc
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 headnmod:poss
20headheadNOUNNumber=Sing21 grewnsubj
21grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sawparataxis
22dizzydizzyADJDegree=Pos21 grewxcomp
23,,PUNCT_27 swampunct
24andandCCONJ_27 swamcc
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 visionnmod:poss
26visionvisionNOUNNumber=Sing27 swamnsubj
27swamswimVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 grewconj
28,,PUNCT_33 believepunct
29andandCCONJ_33 believecc
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 believensubj
31couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin33 believeaux
32scarcelyscarcelyADV_33 believeadvmod
33believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf27 swamconj
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 eyesnmod:poss
35eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur33 believeobj
36..PUNCT_9 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look downpastSunvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2seepastSunno water and no treebefore sweatsuddenly propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
3growpastSun's headdizzy propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4swimpastSun's visionvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5believecouldSunSun's eyesscarcely propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=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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