The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 2
And then the waning moon rose, and poured through the interstices of the leaves beams faint and pallid, as if sharing her own terror.
Who acts: waning moon, interstices · What happens: wane, rise, pour, beam, share · To what, where: interstices, own terror
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waning moon, interstices), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rose | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 4 | waning | wane | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 poured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poured | cc |
| 9 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rose | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 interstices | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 interstices | det |
| 12 | interstices | interstice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 poured | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leaves | det |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beams | obl |
| 16 | beams | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 interstices | acl:relcl |
| 17 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beams | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pallid | cc |
| 19 | pallid | pallid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 faint | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sharing | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 sharing | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 sharing | mark |
| 23 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 poured | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 terror | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 terror | amod |
| 26 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sharing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wane | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | rise | past | the waning moon | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pour | participle | the interstices | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through interstice=Location | |||||
| 4 | beam | present | the interstices not said here | of the leaves; faint property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share a condition, not said to happen | gerund | moon's own terror | tree rules |
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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