The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 52
Then full of astonishment, they proceeded in the direction of the sound: and all at once they saw Shrí, sitting under a tree, looking like an incarnation of Rati grieving for her husband, when burned by Maheshwara[1].
Who acts: drops, Shrí · What happens: proceed, see, sit, look, grieve, burn · To what, where: direction, Shrí, tree
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, Shrí), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 full | advmod |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 astonishment | case |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 full | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proceeded | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proceeded | nsubj |
| 7 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 full | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 direction | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proceeded | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 direction | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 saw | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 saw | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 full | conj |
| 21 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sitting | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 incarnation | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 incarnation | det |
| 31 | incarnation | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 looking | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Rati | case |
| 33 | Rati | Rati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 incarnation | nmod |
| 34 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 looking | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 husband | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 husband | nmod:poss |
| 37 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grieving | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 burned | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 burned | advmod |
| 40 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 saw | parataxis |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 Maheshwara | case |
| 42 | Maheshwara | Maheshwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 burned | obl:agent |
| 43 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 44 1 | punct |
| 44 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 Maheshwara | flat |
| 45 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 44 1 | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | drops = drop | the direction of the sound | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | drops = drop | Shrí | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | Shrí not said here | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | Shrí not said here | like a incarnation of Rati | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | grieve | gerund | Shrí not said here | for Rati's husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | burn | participle | Maheshwara obl:agent | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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