The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 10
And she said, moving her bow-arched eyebrows, with a smile: Out upon the heart of woman, for it is soft as a flower, and averse to constancy!
Who acts: help, heart · What happens: say, move, arch, be · To what, where: arched eyebrows · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, heart), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moving | punct |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arched | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bow | punct |
| 9 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 eyebrows | amod |
| 10 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moving | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smile | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smile | det |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moving | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 16 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 19 heart | advmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smile | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 soft | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 soft | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 soft | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 soft | cop |
| 26 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 flower | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flower | det |
| 29 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soft | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 averse | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 averse | cc |
| 32 | averse | averse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 soft | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 constancy | case |
| 34 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 averse | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | help | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | help not said here | help's arched eyebrows | with a smile upon the heart of woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eyebrow=Theme | |||
| 3 | arch | participle | bow compound | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | heart | as a flower; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | heart not said here | to constancy | tree rules |
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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