The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 50
They were burning on the bank a corpse, whose former owner had died of plague.
Who acts: yards, former owner · What happens: burn, die · To what, where: corpse, bank
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 (yards, former owner), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burning | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burning | aux |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burning | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burning | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 owner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 owner | amod |
| 12 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 died | aux |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 corpse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 plague | case |
| 16 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · progressive | yards = yard | a corpse | the bank | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | former owner | of plague | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of plague=Causer |
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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