The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 3
And at last, unable to endure any longer the silence and the solitude, she rose up and began to move slowly, with hesitating steps, through the dark wood, not knowing where to go, yet not daring to stay where she was.
Who acts: moon · What happens: endure, rise up, begin, move, hesitate, not know · To what, where: silence
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 (moon), 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 | _ | 5 unable | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unable | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 endure | mark |
| 7 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 endure | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 silence | det |
| 11 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 solitude | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 solitude | det |
| 14 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silence | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rose | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rose | nsubj |
| 17 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 rose | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rose | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 move | mark |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 move | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 steps | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 steps | case |
| 26 | hesitating | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 steps | amod |
| 27 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 move | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wood | punct |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wood | det |
| 31 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wood | amod |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 steps | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knowing | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 knowing | advmod |
| 35 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 wood | conj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 go | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 go | mark |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 knowing | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 daring | punct |
| 40 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 42 daring | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 daring | advmod |
| 42 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 unable | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 stay | mark |
| 44 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 daring | xcomp |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 was | advmod |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 was | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 stay | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | to-infinitive | the silence and the solitude | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme silence=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | moon not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | moon not said here | with hesitating steps through the dark wood; slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hesitate | gerund | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not know | gerund | moon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | moon not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not dare | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 9 | not stay | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 10 | be | past | moon | vn exist-47.1 «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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