The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 75
And in a moment he reached them as he ran, and struck at the lion, with all his force, a blow of his sword.
Who acts: Umra, sword · What happens: reach, run, strike, blow · To what, where: breezes
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 (Umra, sword), 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 reached | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 ran | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 struck | cc |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reached | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 lion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 force | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 force | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 force | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 force | nmod:poss |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blow | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 blow | det |
| 24 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 force | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blow | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Umra | breezes = breeze | moment | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | past | Umra | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike | participle | Umra not said here | at the lion; with Umra's force and a blow of Umra's sword | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at lion=Patient with force=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | blow | Umra's sword | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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