The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 110
And tears fell from her eyes like rain, and she laughed for joy, and caressed his face with her hand, and said: Brave heart, and didst thou dare to go alone to that distant Lotus Land?
Who acts: Shrí · What happens: fall, laugh, caress, say, do, dare · To what, where: eyes, face, Brave heart, thou, distant Lotus Land · 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 (Shrí), 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 fell | cc |
| 2 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | aux:pass |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 rain | case |
| 8 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caressed | cc |
| 17 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughed | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caressed | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caressed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 heart | punct |
| 27 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 heart | amod |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 didst | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 didst | cc |
| 31 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 didst | obj |
| 33 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 didst | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 dare | xcomp |
| 36 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 35 go | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Land | case |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 Land | nsubj |
| 39 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Land | amod |
| 40 | Lotus | Lotus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Land | compound |
| 41 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · passive | Shrí's eyes like rain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: from eye=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Shrí | for joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | caress | past | Shrí not said here | man's face | with Shrí's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Brave heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | dare | infinitive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | distant Lotus Land that | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_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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