The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 91
But Shrí, when she came to herself, sat weeping, and fearing for herself in the future: for she foreboded evil from the malicious pranks of the daughter of the Daitya.
Who acts: Shrí · What happens: come, sit, fear, forebode · To what, where: Shrí, weeping, future, evil, malicious pranks
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 foreboded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 foreboded | cc |
| 14 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 foreboded | csubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 fearing | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 future | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 future | det |
| 19 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fearing | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 foreboded | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 foreboded | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 foreboded | nsubj |
| 23 | foreboded | forebode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 24 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 foreboded | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 pranks | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pranks | det |
| 27 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pranks | amod |
| 28 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 foreboded | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 daughter | det |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pranks | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Daitya | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Daitya | det |
| 34 | Daitya | Daitya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 daughter | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Shrí | Shrí | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Shrí not said here | weeping | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weeping=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | gerund | the future | for Shrí | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for herself=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | forebode | past | Shrí | evil | the malicious pranks of the daughter of the Daitya | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=Topic |
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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