The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 76
And there she stood with her bare feet lapped by the waves, looking out eagerly over the sea, with eyes that laughed at and shamed it of its blue.
Who acts: Damayanti, eyes · What happens: stand, lap, look out, laugh, shame · To what, where: bare feet, sea
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 (Damayanti, eyes), 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 | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | expl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feet | amod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | lapped | lap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feet | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 waves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waves | det |
| 12 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lapped | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 14 looking | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eyes | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 laughed | nsubj |
| 24 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 laughed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shamed | cc |
| 27 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 laughed | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shamed | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 blue | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 blue | nmod:poss |
| 31 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shamed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Damayanti | there | with Damayanti's bare feet; with eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lap | participle | Damayanti's bare feet not said here | the waves obl:agent | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look out | gerund | Damayanti not said here | the sea | eagerly property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | laugh | past | eyes | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shame | past | eyes not said here | sea | of sea's blue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=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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