The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 53
For her clothes were torn, and her hair was dishevelled, and her great eyes filled with tears resembled the petals of a blue lotus sparkling with drops of water cast upon them by the sporting of swans in a pool.
Who acts: great eyes, tears, blue lotus · What happens: tear, dishevell, fill, resemble, sparkle, cast · To what, where: clothes, hair, petals, water, pool
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 (great eyes, tears, blue lotus), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 torn | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 torn | aux:pass |
| 5 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dishevelled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dishevelled | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dishevelled | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dishevelled | aux:pass |
| 11 | dishevelled | dishevell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 torn | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | nsubj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 torn | conj |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 resembled | mark |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resembled | nsubj |
| 20 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 petals | det |
| 22 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resembled | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lotus | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lotus | det |
| 25 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lotus | amod |
| 26 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 petals | nmod |
| 27 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 lotus | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 drops | case |
| 29 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sparkling | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drops | nmod |
| 32 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 water | acl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cast | obl |
| 35 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 37 sporting | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sporting | det |
| 37 | sporting | sport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 cast | advcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 swans | case |
| 39 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sporting | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 pool | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 pool | det |
| 42 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sporting | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | Rati's clothes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dishevell | past · passive | Rati's hair | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fill | participle | Rati's great eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | resemble | past | tears | the petals of a blue lotus | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sparkle | gerund | a blue lotus not said here | with drops of water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with drop=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cast | participle | water not said here | upon drops = drop | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon they=Destination | ||||
| 7 | sport | gerund | a pool | of swans | tree rules |
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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