The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 5
So as they gazed, suddenly she drooped and fell, and lay before them on the floor, like a lotus smitten by the frost.
Who acts: astrologers, colour · What happens: gaze, droop, fall, lay, smite · To what, where: floor, lotus
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 (astrologers, colour), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gazed | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drooped | punct |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 drooped | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drooped | nsubj |
| 8 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazed | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drooped | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fell | advcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lotus | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 lotus | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lotus | det |
| 22 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | parataxis |
| 23 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lotus | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 frost | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 frost | det |
| 26 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 smitten | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | astrologers = astrologer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | droop | past | colour | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | colour not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | colour not said here | the floor | before astrologers = astrologer | a lotus parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before they=Destination | ||
| 5 | smite | participle | a lotus not said here | by the frost | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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