The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 31
Then gradually the sun left his home in the eastern mountain, and ascended the sky.
Who acts: sun · What happens: leave, ascend · To what, where: home, eastern mountain, sky
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 (sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 10 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountain | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ascended | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ascended | cc |
| 14 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ascended | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the sun | sun's home | the eastern mountain | then | gradually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme in mountain=Location | |
| 2 | ascend | past | the sun not said here | the sky | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Trajectory |
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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