The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 93

The Moon rises when the Sun sets, reigns over the Night when he is buried in Darkness, and either sets or vanishes when he is risen in his light.

Who acts: Moon, Sun, either · What happens: rise, set, reign, bury, vanish, light · To what, where: Moon, Darkness, light

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 (Moon, Sun, either), 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 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 sets	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sets	nsubj
7	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reigns	punct
9	reigns	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 Night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Night	det
12	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reigns	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 buried	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 buried	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 buried	aux:pass
16	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 reigns	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Darkness	case
18	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 buried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sets	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sets	cc
21	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	22 sets	nsubj
22	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 vanishes	cc
24	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sets	conj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 risen	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 risen	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 risen	aux:pass
28	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 vanishes	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 light	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 light	nmod:poss
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 risen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rise	present	the Moon				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	present	the Sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	reign	present	the Moon not said here			night	tree rules
4	bury	present · passive		Moon	Darkness		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in darkness=Destination
5	set	present	either				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	vanish	present	either not said here				tree rules
7	rise	present · passive		Moon	Moon's light		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
8	light		Moon				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, The Descent of the Sun., sentence 93