The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 39

I wrote the last lines of this translation late one evening, and I walked out in the dusk to the bridge across the river, about half a mile away.

Who acts: I · What happens: write, walk out · To what, where: last lines, river

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, The Descent of the Sun.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lines	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lines	amod
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 translation	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 translation	det
8	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lines	nmod
9	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 evening	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 evening	nummod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 translation	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walked	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 walked	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 dusk	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dusk	det
19	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bridge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bridge	det
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
23	across	across	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mile	punct
27	about	about	ADV	_	30 mile	advmod
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 mile	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mile	det
30	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	parataxis
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 mile	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	I	the last lines of this translation one evening					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme
2	walk out	past	I			the river	dusk	to the bridge; half mile parataxis; out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 39