The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 99
And she wept aloud, and forgot in that moment all her sorrow; and she looked at him, and laughed for joy, and closed her eyes, as if, like the sun, the sight of him dimmed and overcame the faculty of vision.
Who acts: Shrí, sun · What happens: weep, forget, look, laugh, close, dim · To what, where: eyes, faculty, husband
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, sun), 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 | _ | 3 wept | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgot | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgot | cc |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forgot | obl |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 sorrow | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moment | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laughed | cc |
| 22 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laughed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 closed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 closed | cc |
| 27 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughed | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 closed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dimmed | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 dimmed | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 dimmed | mark |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sun | punct |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 sun | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sun | det |
| 36 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dimmed | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sight | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sight | det |
| 39 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sun | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sight | nmod |
| 42 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 closed | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 overcame | cc |
| 44 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 dimmed | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 faculty | det |
| 46 | faculty | faculty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 overcame | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 vision | case |
| 48 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 faculty | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Shrí | aloud property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Shrí not said here | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Shrí | at husband | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | Shrí not said here | for joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | close | past | Shrí's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 6 | dim a condition, not said to happen | past | the sun and the sight of husband | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | overcome | past | the sun and the sight of husband not said here | the faculty of vision | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot faculty=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sorrow | Shrí | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | sight | husband | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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