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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

nsubjobjpunctccnsubjconjobjpunctccconjamodobjcaseamodnmodpunctccadvmoddetamodamodnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctamodpunctconjpunctccadvmodconjpunctcasensubjamodamodoblpunctacladvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctcasedetamodccconjoblpunctrootDistanceNOUNlendsVERBenchantmentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtimeNOUNeffacesVERBdetailNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJendowsVERBsternADJrealitiesNOUNwithADPdreamyADJbeautyNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJthusADVaDETruggedADJstonyADJpastNOUNfadesVERBgraduallyADVintoADPaDETpictureNOUN,PUNCTblueADJ,PUNCTsoftADJ,PUNCTandCCONJunutterablyADVbeautifulADJ,PUNCTlikeADPsomeDETlowADJbarrenADJislandNOUN,PUNCTseenVERBfarADVawayADVinADPtheDEThazeNOUN,PUNCToverADPaDEThotADJandCCONJglitteringVERBseaNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DistancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing2 lendsnsubj
2lendslendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3enchantmentenchantmentNOUNNumber=Sing2 lendsobj
4,,PUNCT_7 effacespunct
5andandCCONJ_7 effacescc
6timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing7 effacesnsubj
7effaceseffaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 lendsconj
8detaildetailNOUNNumber=Sing7 effacesobj
9,,PUNCT_11 endowspunct
10andandCCONJ_11 endowscc
11endowsendowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 effacesconj
12sternsternADJDegree=Pos13 realitiesamod
13realitiesrealityNOUNNumber=Plur11 endowsobj
14withwithADP_16 beautycase
15dreamydreamyADJDegree=Pos16 beautyamod
16beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing13 realitiesnmod
17;;PUNCT_24 fadespunct
18andandCCONJ_24 fadescc
19thusthusADV_24 fadesadvmod
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 pastdet
21ruggedruggedADJDegree=Pos23 pastamod
22stonystonyADJDegree=Pos23 pastamod
23pastpastNOUNNumber=Sing24 fadesnsubj
24fadesfadeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 lendsconj
25graduallygraduallyADV_24 fadesadvmod
26intointoADP_28 picturecase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 picturedet
28picturepictureNOUNNumber=Sing24 fadesobl
29,,PUNCT_30 bluepunct
30blueblueADJDegree=Pos28 pictureamod
31,,PUNCT_32 softpunct
32softsoftADJDegree=Pos30 blueconj
33,,PUNCT_36 beautifulpunct
34andandCCONJ_36 beautifulcc
35unutterablyunutterablyADV_36 beautifuladvmod
36beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos2 lendsconj
37,,PUNCT_42 islandpunct
38likelikeADP_42 islandcase
39somesomeDETPronType=Ind42 islandnsubj
40lowlowADJDegree=Pos42 islandamod
41barrenbarrenADJDegree=Pos42 islandamod
42islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing36 beautifulobl
43,,PUNCT_44 seenpunct
44seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 islandacl
45farfarADVDegree=Pos46 awayadvmod
46awayawayADV_44 seenadvmod
47ininADP_49 hazecase
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 hazedet
49hazehazeNOUNNumber=Sing46 awayobl
50,,PUNCT_56 seapunct
51overoverADP_56 seacase
52aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art56 seadet
53hothotADJDegree=Pos56 seaamod
54andandCCONJ_55 glitteringcc
55glitteringglitterVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part53 hotconj
56seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing44 seenobl
57..PUNCT_2 lendspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lendpresentDistanceenchantmentvn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme
2effacepresenttimedetailvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient
3endowpresenttime not said herestern realitieswith dreamy beautyvn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent reality=Destination with beauty=Theme
4fadepresenta rugged stony pasta picturegradually, thus propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5seeparticiplelow barren island not said herea hot seaaway propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6glittergerundvn 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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