The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 70
And he stood in the pool like a pillar of stone, with the water streaming from his body, and doubt bewildering his soul.
Who acts: sun, water · What happens: stand, stream, bewilder · To what, where: pool, body, soul
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 (sun, water), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pool | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pool | det |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 pillar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pillar | det |
| 9 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pillar | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 16 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 water | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 streaming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bewildering | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bewildering | cc |
| 22 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bewildering | compound |
| 23 | bewildering | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bewildering | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | sun | the pool like a pillar of stone | with the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location | |||
| 2 | stream | gerund | the water not said here | sun's body | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from body=Source | ||||
| 3 | bewilder | gerund | sun not said here | sun's soul | doubt compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |
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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