The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 71
So they ran through the wood in the moonlight, in and out of the trees, like a spotted panther and a black antelope.
Who acts: tears · What happens: run, spot · To what, where: wood
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 (tears), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moonlight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moonlight | det |
| 9 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trees | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 panther | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 panther | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 panther | det |
| 20 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 panther | amod |
| 21 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 antelope | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 antelope | det |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 antelope | amod |
| 25 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 panther | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | tears = tear | the wood | in the moonlight; the trees conj; a spotted panther and a black antelope parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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