The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 60
But they could not agree about it, and fell to quarrelling, and it was as if a stone had been dropped into a nest of serpents.
Who acts: drops · What happens: not agree, fall, drop · To what, where: quarrelling, nest
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 agree | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 agree | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 agree | advmod |
| 5 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 agree | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agree | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 quarrelling | case |
| 12 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dropped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dropped | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dropped | aux:pass |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 dropped | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 dropped | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dropped | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 dropped | aux:pass |
| 23 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fell | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 nest | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nest | det |
| 26 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dropped | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 serpents | case |
| 28 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 nest | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not agree speech: agree | could | drops = drop | about beauty | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | drops = drop not said here | to quarrelling | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarrelling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | quarrelling | a nest of serpents | a stone nsubj:pass | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into nest=Destination |
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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