The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 100
Then after a while, she opened them again, and started and shrieked, and her blood became ice, and her heart stopped.
Who acts: Shrí, blood, heart · What happens: open, start, shriek, become, stop · To what, where: eyes, ice
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 (Shrí, blood, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 opened | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 while | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 opened | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrieked | cc |
| 14 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 started | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | parataxis |
| 20 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stopped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stopped | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | nsubj |
| 25 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 became | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Shrí | eyes = eye | then; again; while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | start | past | Shrí not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shriek | past | Shrí not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | Shrí's blood | ice | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Shrí's heart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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