The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 49
But about two hundred yards away, on the right bank, there was a red spot and leaping flames.
Who acts: hundred yards · What happens: be, leap · To what, where: red spot, flames
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 (hundred yards), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 spot | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 yards | nummod |
| 5 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spot | nsubj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 yards | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bank | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bank | amod |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spot | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spot | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spot | amod |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaping | cc |
| 19 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spot | conj |
| 20 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaping | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hundred yards | a red spot | the right bank nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leap | gerund | hundred yards not said here | flames | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flame=Trajectory |
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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