The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 44
And she tore her clothes to pieces in the bushes, and pierced her feet with their thorns, leaving where she passed on the grass drops of blood, like rubies, mingled with the pearls of her tears that fell beside them, as often as she thought of her absent husband.
Who acts: animal, leaving, tears · What happens: tore, pierce, leave, pass, drop, mingle · To what, where: clothes, bushes, feet, grass, rubies
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 (animal, leaving, tears), 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 tore | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tore | nsubj |
| 3 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 tore | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tore | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bushes | det |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tore | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pierced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pierced | cc |
| 13 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tore | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pierced | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thorns | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thorns | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pierced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaving | punct |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 drops | csubj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 passed | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 leaving | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 grass | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grass | det |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obl |
| 27 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pierced | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 blood | case |
| 29 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drops | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rubies | punct |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 rubies | case |
| 32 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 drops | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mingled | punct |
| 34 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 rubies | acl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 pearls | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pearls | det |
| 37 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 mingled | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 tears | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tears | nmod:poss |
| 40 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pearls | nmod |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 fell | nsubj |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 tears | acl:relcl |
| 43 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 fell | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 often | punct |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 47 often | advmod |
| 47 | often | often | ADV | _ | 50 thought | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 50 thought | mark |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 thought | nsubj |
| 50 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 fell | advcl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 husband | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 husband | nmod:poss |
| 53 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 husband | amod |
| 54 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 thought | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | animal | animal's clothes | the bushes | to pieces | tree rules | ||
| 2 | pierce | past | animal not said here | animal's feet | with feet's thorns | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with thorn=Instrument | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pass | past | animal | the grass | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=Location | ||||
| 5 | drop | present | leaving | of blood; like rubies | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of blood=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | mingle | participle | rubies not said here | with the pearls of animal's tears | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pearl=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | animal's tears | beside feet = foot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside they=Location | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other | past | animal | of animal's absent husband; often property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | pearl | animal's tears | nom pearl «possession 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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