The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 97
And suddenly, strange! there in the dim twilight she saw her husband coming towards her, looking just as he did, when she left him in the palace at Indirálayá.
Who acts: Shrí, husband · What happens: see, come, look, do, leave · To what, where: husband, dim twilight, palace
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, husband), 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 strange | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 strange | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 strange | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 twilight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 twilight | det |
| 9 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 twilight | amod |
| 10 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strange | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 husband | acl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 did | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looking | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 left | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Indirálayá | case |
| 33 | Indirálayá | Indirálayá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Shrí | Shrí's husband | the dim twilight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | Shrí's husband not said here | towards Shrí | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Shrí not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | Shrí | husband | the palace at Indirálayá | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in palace=Location |
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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