The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 7
And the King, seeing her fall, and hearing them speak, lost his senses, and fell down beside her in a swoon.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, hear, speak, lose, fall down · To what, where: fall, astrologers, senses, swoon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 seeing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 speak | cc |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 speak | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hearing | obj |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeing | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 speak | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 senses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 swoon | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 swoon | det |
| 25 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the King | colour's fall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | astrologers = astrologer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lose | past | King's senses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fall down | past | a swoon | beside colour; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside she=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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