The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 17
And in his dreams Shrí stood beside him, and revived his parched soul with the nectar of her kindly glance, as a hermit's daughter refreshes with water the plants of the hermitage committed to her charge.
Who acts: Shrí, daughter, plants, sight · What happens: stand, revive, parch, glance, refresh, commit · To what, where: dreams, parched soul, water, charge
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, daughter, plants, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dreams | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 revived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 revived | cc |
| 11 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 soul | amod |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 revived | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 nectar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nectar | det |
| 17 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 revived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nectar | nmod |
| 20 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 21 glance | advmod |
| 21 | glance | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 revived | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 refreshes | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 refreshes | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hermit | det |
| 25 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 hermit | case |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 refreshes | nsubj |
| 28 | refreshes | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 glance | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 refreshes | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 plants | det |
| 32 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 committed | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hermitage | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hermitage | det |
| 35 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plants | nmod |
| 36 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 water | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 charge | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 charge | nmod:poss |
| 39 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 committed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Shrí | sight's dreams | beside sight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dream=Location | |||
| 2 | revive | past | Shrí not said here | sight's parched soul | with the nectar of Shrí | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soul=Patient with nectar=Instrument | |||
| 3 | parch | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | glance | present | Shrí not said here | kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | refresh | present | a hermit's daughter | with water | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | commit | past | the plants of the hermitage | water not said here | Shrí's charge | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to charge=Destination | |||
| 7 | dream | sight | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | charge | Shrí | nom charge «act 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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