The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 61
Then one laid hands upon her, and then another, till she was nearly torn in pieces.
Who acts: one · What happens: lay, tear · To what, where: hands, spell, pieces
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 (one), 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 | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 another | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 another | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 another | advmod |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 laid | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 torn | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 torn | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 torn | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 torn | aux:pass |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 torn | advmod |
| 16 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laid | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pieces | case |
| 18 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 torn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | one | hands | then | upon spell | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon she=Destination | ||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | spell | pieces | nearly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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