The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 48
Now it happened, that some Bhillas, hunting, by the decree of destiny, in the forest, came upon her track, and saw the drops of blood upon the leaves.
Who acts: it, Bhillas, destiny · What happens: happen, hunt, come, see, decree · To what, where: track, drops
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 (it, Bhillas, destiny), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunting | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hunting | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Bhillas | det |
| 7 | Bhillas | Bhillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunting | punct |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decree | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 decree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 decree | det |
| 13 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 destiny | case |
| 15 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decree | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 track | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 track | nmod:poss |
| 24 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 saw | cc |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 drops | det |
| 29 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 saw | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drops | nmod |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 leaves | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 leaves | det |
| 34 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 saw | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | some Bhillas | by the decree of destiny; the forest conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by decree=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Bhillas's track | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon track=Location | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the drops of blood | upon the leaves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | decree | destiny | nom decree «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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