The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 30
And he shouted for joy, and began to swim in that direction.
Who acts: Singh · What happens: shout, begin, swim · To what, where: direction
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 (Singh), 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 shouted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 swim | mark |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 direction | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 direction | det |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swim | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Singh | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Singh not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | Singh not said here | that direction | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
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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