The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 49
And they followed them up, saying to themselves: Some wounded animal has passed this way.
Who acts: drops · What happens: follow up, say, pass · To what, where: roots, drops, wounded animal · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (drops), 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 followed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 followed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 followed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 themselves | case |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 saying | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 11 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 animal | det |
| 12 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animal | amod |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 passed | aux |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow up | past | drops = drop | roots = root | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | drops = drop not said here | drops = drop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pass | present · perfect · passive | some wounded animal | this way obl:unmarked | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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