The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 24
[1] The Ganges fell from heaven, and Shiwa caught it on his head, where it wandered in his hair for a thousand years before it could find its way down.
Who acts: Ganges, Shiwa · What happens: fall, catch, wander, find down · To what, where: heaven, Ganges, head, hair, way
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 (Ganges, Shiwa), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Ganges | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ganges | det |
| 5 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 11 | Shiwa | Shiwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wandered | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 wandered | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wandered | nsubj |
| 20 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wandered | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thousand | det |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wandered | obl |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 find | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wandered | advcl |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 way | nmod:poss |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 34 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 find | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Ganges | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Shiwa | Ganges | Shiwa's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | wander | past | Ganges | Shiwa's hair | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | find down | could | Ganges | Ganges's way | down property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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