The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 82
And when he saw a female figure standing alone on the shore, he came quickly in a boat to take her captive.
Who acts: captain, female figure · What happens: see, stand, come, take · To what, where: female figure, shore, boat, captive
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 (captain, female figure), 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 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 figure | det |
| 6 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 figure | amod |
| 7 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 figure | acl |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 standing | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 captive | nmod:poss |
| 23 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | captain | a female figure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a female figure not said here | the shore | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | captain | a boat | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location | |||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | captain not said here | wind's captive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |
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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