The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 6
For the joy of reunion, and the desire of safety, and the fear of solitude drew her towards him like a threefold cord: while the memory of her deception, and the fear of illusion, and the anticipation of unknown danger, fixed her to the ground like roots.
Who acts: fear, moon · What happens: draw, fix, joy, desire, fear, deceive · To what, where: moon, reunion, safety, solitude, illusion
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 (fear, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 joy | det |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fixed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 reunion | case |
| 5 | reunion | reunion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 desire | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 desire | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 desire | det |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 safety | case |
| 11 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desire | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fear | det |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 solitude | case |
| 17 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | nmod |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 desire | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | iobj |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 cord | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cord | det |
| 24 | threefold | threefold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cord | amod |
| 25 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 memory | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 memory | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 memory | det |
| 29 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cord | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 deception | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 deception | nmod:poss |
| 32 | deception | deception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 memory | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fear | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fear | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fear | det |
| 36 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 memory | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 illusion | case |
| 38 | illusion | illusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fear | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 anticipation | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 anticipation | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 anticipation | det |
| 42 | anticipation | anticipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 memory | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 danger | case |
| 44 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 danger | amod |
| 45 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 anticipation | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 47 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fixed | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 ground | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 ground | det |
| 51 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fixed | obl |
| 52 | like | like | ADP | _ | 53 roots | case |
| 53 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 ground | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the fear of solitude | moon | towards husband; like a threefold cord | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme towards he=Destination | |||
| 2 | fix | past | moon | for the joy of reunion and the desire of safety; to the ground like roots | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Patient to ground=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | joy | reunion | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | desire | safety | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | fear | solitude | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | deceive | moon | nom deception «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | fear | illusion | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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