The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 47
And at last there came a day when she was seized with panic, and a fear of unknown evil: and she sank down at the foot of a tree, and watered its roots with her tears.
Who acts: soul · What happens: come, seize, sink down, water, fear · To what, where: fear, last, soul, foot, roots, unknown evil
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 (soul), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 came | expl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 seized | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | aux:pass |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 panic | case |
| 13 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fear | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fear | det |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 evil | case |
| 19 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evil | amod |
| 20 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fear | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 sank | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sank | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sank | nsubj |
| 24 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 sank | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 foot | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 foot | det |
| 28 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sank | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 foot | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 watered | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 watered | cc |
| 34 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 roots | nmod:poss |
| 36 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 watered | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 tears | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tears | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 watered | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a fear of unknown evil | last; there | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | soul | with panic | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink down | past | soul | the foot of a tree | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | water | past | tree's roots | with soul's tears | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Destination with tear=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fear | unknown evil | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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