The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 5, sentence 86
And as he spoke, ungovernable impatience seized him: and he stamped his foot upon the ground, and tears came into his eyes, and suddenly he began to laugh.
Who acts: Umra, ungovernable impatience, tears · What happens: speak, seize, stamp, come, begin, laugh · To what, where: Umra, foot, ground, eyes · 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 (Umra, ungovernable impatience, tears), 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 | _ | 8 seized | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
| 6 | ungovernable | ungovernable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 impatience | amod |
| 7 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stamped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stamped | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stamped | nsubj |
| 13 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamped | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stamped | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 28 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 30 began | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 began | nsubj |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 laugh | mark |
| 32 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Umra | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | ungovernable impatience | Umra | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stamp | past | Umra | Umra's foot | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon ground=Destination | |||
| 4 | come | past | tears | Umra's eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | Umra | suddenly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | laugh | to-infinitive | Umra not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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