The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 81
Distance lends enchantment, and time effaces detail, and endows stern realities with dreamy beauty; and thus a rugged stony past fades gradually into a picture, blue, soft, and unutterably beautiful, like some low barren island, seen far away in the haze, over a hot and glittering sea.
Who acts: Distance, time, rugged stony past · What happens: lend, efface, endow, fade, see, glitter · To what, where: enchantment, detail, stern realities, picture, low barren island, hot sea
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 (Distance, time, rugged stony past), 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 | Distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lends | nsubj |
| 2 | lends | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lends | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 effaces | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 effaces | cc |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effaces | nsubj |
| 7 | effaces | efface | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lends | conj |
| 8 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effaces | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 endows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 endows | cc |
| 11 | endows | endow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 effaces | conj |
| 12 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 realities | amod |
| 13 | realities | reality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 endows | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 realities | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fades | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fades | cc |
| 19 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 fades | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 past | det |
| 21 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 past | amod |
| 22 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 past | amod |
| 23 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fades | nsubj |
| 24 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lends | conj |
| 25 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 24 fades | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 picture | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 picture | det |
| 28 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fades | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blue | punct |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 picture | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 soft | punct |
| 32 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blue | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 beautiful | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beautiful | cc |
| 35 | unutterably | unutterably | ADV | _ | 36 beautiful | advmod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lends | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 island | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 island | case |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 island | nsubj |
| 40 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 island | amod |
| 41 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 island | amod |
| 42 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 beautiful | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 seen | punct |
| 44 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 island | acl |
| 45 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 away | advmod |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 seen | advmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 haze | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 haze | det |
| 49 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 away | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 sea | punct |
| 51 | over | over | ADP | _ | 56 sea | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 sea | det |
| 53 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 sea | amod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 glittering | cc |
| 55 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 53 hot | conj |
| 56 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seen | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | present | Distance | enchantment | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | efface | present | time | detail | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | endow | present | time not said here | stern realities | with dreamy beauty | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent reality=Destination with beauty=Theme | |||
| 4 | fade | present | a rugged stony past | a picture | gradually, thus property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | see | participle | low barren island not said here | a hot sea | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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