The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 103
And twice he strove to speak, and twice he failed, while great tears fell from his eyes upon the ground.
Who acts: Umra, great tears · What happens: strive, speak, fail, fall · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umra, great 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 | _ | 4 strove | cc |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 strove | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strove | nsubj |
| 4 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 speak | mark |
| 6 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strove | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 failed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 failed | cc |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 failed | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 failed | nsubj |
| 11 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strove | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 fell | mark |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tears | amod |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 failed | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | Umra | twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Umra not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fail | past | Umra | twice property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | great tears | Umra's eyes | upon the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location |
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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