The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 66
And there she lay down at the edge of the water and drank greedily; and afterwards washed her wound and stains, and bathed her feet, and overcome by weariness, fell asleep.
Who acts: Shrí · What happens: lie down, drink, wash, bath, overcome, fall · To what, where: edge, wound, feet
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lay | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | expl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edge | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drank | cc |
| 13 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 14 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 13 drank | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 washed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 washed | cc |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 washed | advmod |
| 18 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wound | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 washed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stains | cc |
| 22 | stains | stain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wound | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bathed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bathed | cc |
| 25 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 washed | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bathed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 overcome | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 overcome | cc |
| 30 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 bathed | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 weariness | case |
| 32 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 overcome | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fell | punct |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bathed | conj |
| 35 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fell | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Shrí | the edge of the water; there | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | |||
| 2 | drink | past | Shrí not said here | greedily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | Shrí not said here | Shrí's wound and stains | afterwards property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||
| 4 | bath | past | Shrí not said here | Shrí's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | overcome | participle | Shrí not said here | by weariness | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | Shrí not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wound | Shrí | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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