The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 42

And as I stood upon the bridge, I could hear a faint din of tom-toms coming from the distant city of the Peshwas.

Who acts: I, tom toms · What happens: stand, hear, come, din · To what, where: bridge, faint din, distant city

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, tom toms), 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	_	11 hear	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	advcl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 din	det
13	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 din	amod
14	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 toms	case
16	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 toms	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tom	punct
18	toms	tom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 din	nmod
19	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 toms	acl
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
22	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 city	amod
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coming	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Peshwas	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Peshwas	det
26	Peshwas	Peshwa	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 city	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	I		the bridge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bridge=Location
2	hear	could	I	a faint din of tom toms		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer din=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	tom toms not said here		the distant city of the Peshwas	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location
4	din		tom toms			nom din «event intransitive»: of=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 42