The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 13
But hearing this, the King was utterly bewildered, and doubted the testimony of his ears.
Who acts: ears · What happens: hear, bewilder, doubt, testify · To what, where: this, King, testimony
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 (ears), 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 | _ | 9 bewildered | cc |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bewildered | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bewildered | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 8 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 9 bewildered | advmod |
| 9 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doubted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 doubted | cc |
| 12 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bewildered | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 testimony | det |
| 14 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doubted | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ears | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 testimony | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bewildered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bewilder | past · passive | the King | utterly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | doubt | past | the testimony of King's ears | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testimony=Theme | |||||
| 4 | testify | King's ears | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=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.
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