The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 83
But when he got to the shore, and saw the wonderful beauty of her dark blue eyes and snow white raiment, he was struck with wonder, and became afraid.
Who acts: captain · What happens: get, see, strike, become · To what, where: wonderful beauty, captain
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beauty | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 raiment | cc |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raiment | compound |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 raiment | amod |
| 22 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 struck | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 struck | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 struck | aux:pass |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 wonder | case |
| 28 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 became | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 became | cc |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 32 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 became | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | captain | to the shore result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shore=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the wonderful beauty of wind's dark blue eyes and snow white raiment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | captain | with wonder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wonder=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | become | past | afraid property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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