The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 45
All was reflected in the still mirror of the broad sheet of water formed by the river _Bund_, or dam.
What happens: reflect, form · To what, where: All, mirror, broad sheet
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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reflected | aux:pass |
| 3 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mirror | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mirror | det |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 mirror | advmod |
| 7 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflected | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sheet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheet | det |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sheet | amod |
| 11 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mirror | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sheet | nmod |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sheet | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bund | punct |
| 19 | Bund | Bund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reflected | parataxis |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Bund | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dam | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 dam | cc |
| 23 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reflected | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past · passive | All | the mirror of the broad sheet of water | dam obl; Bund parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form | participle | the broad sheet of water not said here | by the river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=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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