The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 46
And he struck with his trident a blow on that mind-born gong that resounded through the forest like thunder.
Who acts: Maheshwara, born gong · What happens: strike, bear, resound · To what, where: blow, forest
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 (Maheshwara, born gong), 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 struck | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 trident | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trident | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trident | trident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blow | det |
| 8 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 gong | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 gong | det |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 mind | punct |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gong | amod |
| 14 | gong | gong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 resounded | nsubj |
| 16 | resounded | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gong | acl:relcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resounded | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 thunder | case |
| 21 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forest | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Maheshwara | a blow | with Maheshwara's trident; on that born gong | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent blow=Instrument on gong=Patient | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | mind compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | resound | past | that born gong | the forest like thunder | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
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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