The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 27
On the contrary, all wondered at him and turned him to ridicule.
What happens: wonder, turn, ridicule · To what, where: 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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wondered | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 wondered | advmod |
| 6 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contrary | parataxis |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wondered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wondered | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ridicule | mark |
| 13 | ridicule | ridicule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | at sight | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | sight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ridicule | to-infinitive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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