The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 115
And she caught hold of the King to save herself from falling, and the King almost fainted from excess of joy, and the nectar of her touch.
Who acts: Shrí, King · What happens: catch, save, fall, faint, hold, touch · To what, where: hold, Shrí, nectar, King
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 (Shrí, King), 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 caught | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 save | mark |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caught | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 save | obj |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 12 falling | mark |
| 12 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 save | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fainted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fainted | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fainted | nsubj |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 fainted | advmod |
| 18 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 excess | case |
| 20 | excess | excess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fainted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 excess | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nectar | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nectar | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nectar | det |
| 26 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fainted | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 touch | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 touch | nmod:poss |
| 29 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nectar | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Shrí | hold of the King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | Shrí not said here | Shrí | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | Shrí not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | faint | past | the King | the nectar of Shrí's touch | from excess of joy; almost property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from excess=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | hold | the King | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | touch | Shrí | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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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