The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 11
And he reeled about like a drunken man, this way and that way, jostling the people, who marvelled and mocked at him: See, see, the ragged Rajpoot, the suitor of the King's daughter, whose very sight has killed her!
Who acts: Singh, people · What happens: reel, jostle, marvell, mock, see, kill · To what, where: people, ragged Rajpoot, sight
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Singh, people), 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 reeled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reeled | nsubj |
| 3 | reeled | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 reeled | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | drunken | drunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reeled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 way | cc |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jostling | punct |
| 16 | jostling | jostle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reeled | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 jostling | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 marvelled | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 marvelled | nsubj |
| 21 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 people | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mocked | cc |
| 23 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 marvelled | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mocked | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 See | punct |
| 27 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reeled | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 See | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Rajpoot | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Rajpoot | det |
| 32 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Rajpoot | amod |
| 33 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 See | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 suitor | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 suitor | det |
| 36 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Rajpoot | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 daughter | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 King | case |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suitor | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 killed | punct |
| 43 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 45 sight | nmod:poss |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 sight | advmod |
| 45 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 killed | aux |
| 47 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 Rajpoot | acl |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 killed | obj |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 reeled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reel | past | Singh | like a drunken man and this way and that way; about property | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | jostle | gerund | Singh not said here | the people | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||||
| 3 | marvell | past | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mock | past | the people not said here | at Singh | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | Singh not said here | the ragged Rajpoot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | Singh not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | kill | present · perfect · passive | sight | colour obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result |
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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