The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 73
But Shrí shuddered at her touch, for it suggested evil to her sleeping soul.
Who acts: Shrí, touch · What happens: shudder, suggest, touch · To what, where: evil, sleeping soul
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, touch), 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 | _ | 3 shuddered | cc |
| 2 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shuddered | nsubj |
| 3 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 touch | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nmod:poss |
| 6 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuddered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suggested | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 suggested | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 suggested | nsubj |
| 10 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shuddered | conj |
| 11 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suggested | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 soul | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soul | compound |
| 15 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suggested | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuddered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shudder | past | Shrí | at Shrí's touch | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at touch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | touch | evil | Shrí's sleeping soul | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent evil=Topic to soul=Recipient | |||
| 3 | touch | Shrí | nom touch «event 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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