The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 80
And as she gazed, there appeared tossing on the waves a ship, like the realization of her desire to cross the ocean in visible form.
Who acts: wind · What happens: gaze, appear, toss, cross, realize, desire · To what, where: waves, ocean, desire
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 (wind), 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 | _ | 7 appeared | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 gazed | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gazed | nsubj |
| 4 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazed | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 appeared | expl |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 appeared | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 waves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waves | det |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tossing | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waves | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 realization | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 realization | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 realization | det |
| 17 | realization | realization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tossing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 desire | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 desire | nmod:poss |
| 20 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 realization | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cross | mark |
| 22 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tossing | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ocean | det |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cross | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 form | case |
| 26 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 form | amod |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cross | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | wind | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | toss | gerund | the waves a ship | like the realization of wind's desire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on wave=Destination | ||||
| 4 | cross | to-infinitive | the ocean | in visible form | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient in form=Topic | ||||
| 5 | realize | wind's desire | nom realization «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | desire | wind | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg68641/8/80/