The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 2
And all they that stood by watched her and wondered.
Who acts: they · What happens: stand, watch, wonder · To what, where: her
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 (they), 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 | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | reparandum |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 watched | mark |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watched | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wondered | cc |
| 10 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | they | that nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | they not said here | her = she | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | they not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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