The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 54
So those wild Bhillas wondered when they saw her, and said to each other: What is this marvel of a dancing girl, so ragged and so beautiful, weeping alone in the wood?
Who acts: wild Bhillas, drops · What happens: wonder, see, say, be, weep · To what, where: Bhillas, each, marvel · 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 (wild Bhillas, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 wondered | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 Bhillas | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bhillas | amod |
| 4 | Bhillas | Bhillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wondered | nsubj |
| 5 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 marvel | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 marvel | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 marvel | cop |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 marvel | det |
| 20 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 girl | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 girl | compound |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marvel | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ragged | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 ragged | advmod |
| 27 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 marvel | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beautiful | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ragged | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 weeping | punct |
| 32 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 marvel | advcl |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 32 weeping | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 wood | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wood | det |
| 36 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 weeping | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | that wild Bhillas | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | drops = drop | Bhillas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | that wild Bhillas not said here | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | this marvel | of a dancing girl; What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | in the wood; alone property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wood=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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