Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 23

As I approached the verge of nature, I perceived the shadows of total and boundless vacuity deepen before me, a dreadful region of eternal silence, solitude, and darkness!

Who acts: I, shadows · What happens: approach, perceive, deepen · To what, where: verge, dreadful region

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Carazan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shadows), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 perceived	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 verge	det
5	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nature	case
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verge	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 perceived	nsubj
10	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shadows	det
12	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 deepen	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 vacuity	case
14	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vacuity	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boundless	cc
16	boundless	boundless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 total	conj
17	vacuity	vacuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deepen	obl
18	deepen	deepen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 perceived	ccomp
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 deepen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 region	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 region	det
23	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 region	amod
24	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deepen	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 silence	case
26	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 silence	amod
27	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 region	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 solitude	punct
29	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 silence	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 darkness	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 darkness	cc
32	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceived	parataxis
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	I	the verge of nature			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verge=Theme
2	perceive	past	I			darkness parataxis	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	deepen	infinitive	the shadows	a dreadful region of eternal silence and solitude	before me	of total vacuity	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Carazan., sentence 23