The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 76
The flames were dying down: their work was done.
Who acts: flames, work · What happens: die down, be, work
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 (flames, work), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dying | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dying | aux |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 dying | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | cop |
| 10 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dying | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die down | past · progressive | the flames | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | past | flames's work | done property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | flames = flame | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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