The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 75
Then they looked at each other, like light and darkness, and each wondered at the loveliness of the other, forgetful of her own.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: look, wonder · To what, where: each, loveliness
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 (eyes), 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 looked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 light | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 light | case |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 darkness | cc |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondered | cc |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 wondered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 loveliness | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 loveliness | det |
| 18 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wondered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loveliness | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgetful | punct |
| 23 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loveliness | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 own | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 own | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forgetful | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | eyes = eye | then | like light and darkness; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | participle · passive | each | the loveliness of the other | tree rules |
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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