The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 12
But he heard nothing but the words of Shrí, and saw nothing but her eyes.
Who acts: sight · What happens: hear, see, word · To what, where: nothing, Shrí
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 (sight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 words | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Shrí | case |
| 9 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 eyes | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nothing | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sight | nothing the words of Shrí | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sight not said here | nothing Shrí's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | word | Shrí | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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