The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 16
And he left far behind him the eyes of those hideous Rákshasas glowing in the sand as if with rage to see him escape: and after a long while, they came to the edge of the desert.
Who acts: Umra, eyes · What happens: leave, glow, see, escape, come · To what, where: sand, Umra, edge
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, eyes), 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 left | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 left | advmod |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 glowing | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rákshasas | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 Rákshasas | det |
| 11 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Rákshasas | amod |
| 12 | Rákshasas | Rákshasas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sand | det |
| 16 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glowing | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 rage | mark |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glowing | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glowing | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | xcomp |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 came | cc |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 while | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 while | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 while | amod |
| 30 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 while | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 edge | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 edge | det |
| 36 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 desert | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 desert | det |
| 39 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 edge | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Umra | behind help; far property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | ||||
| 2 | glow | gerund | the eyes of that hideous Rákshasas | the sand | as rage | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sand=Location | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the eyes of that hideous Rákshasas not said here | Umra | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | Umra not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | eyes = eye | the edge of the desert | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=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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